Could EMALS save the royal navy?
>>27956082
Could a navalized variant of the Eurofighter Typhoon save the Royal Navy from the F-35B ?
>>27956221
Was examined but was ruled to be a silly option.
E2D Advanced Hawkeyes could save the Royal Navy
>>27956303
A silly price, or was there something more?
>>27956348
The regular variant is already more expensive than f35 so probably
>>27956303
Didn't they loose a contract with India because of that?
Fuck the Rafale was born because they wouldn't navalize the Typhoon among other things wasn't it?
>>27956434
>>27956348
typhoon at hi attack angles and low speeds stalls like a bitch, looks nice at air shows fucking deadly for a naval fighter
basically you would need redesign layout altogether for it to be viable naval fighter
Why don't they just try to build a fixed wing AWACS that can take off from the ski jump?
>>27956434
>Didn't they loose a contract with India because of that?
Nope. They lost out simply because Dassault pitched a WAY lower price than their plane actually was. They paid for that dearly after a few years when the price exploded and the entire deal got canned.
Thats what you get for lowballing a country wanting over a hundred of your damn planes. That was all it came down to in the end, price.
>Fuck the Rafale was born because they wouldn't navalize the Typhoon among other things wasn't it?
That was partially one side of it. The primary one was Dassault demanding they get full control of the entire project and got to design and make basically everything in it with other people just buying French.
The other countries quite righly told them to get fucked, and France left in a huff.
Of course, people keep forgetting. The Rafale can't launch from carriers. The Rafale M is the carrier version, and it's not the exact same plane as the normal one. It's got a slightly different airframe (cockpit is angled more to see the deck on approach), less hardpoints and weighs a bit more.
>>27957941
They already do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_E-2_Hawkeye
>>27958220
E-2 is CATOBAR only. no ski jump.
They have proposed using the V-22 though
>>27956434
Rafale was borne because France threw a hissy fit and withdrew from the program.
Germany did the same but then came back to the fold for some reason.
If the picture looks familiar then it's because it's where Germany went with the program.
>>27958246
No need for V-22
Merlin was chosen. Its a factor of the cost for a small drop in capability and it can operate from every surface warship the RN uses.
Type 23 / 26 on picket will be able to fly their own AEW.
There are for better things to put money into while there isn't any naval opposition worth a damn.
Type 45 getting their full ABM capability is far more important.
>>27956082
Implying the UK will need carriers for force projection.
>>27959680
> Implying Cyprus won't kick them out over some manufactured SJW bullshit invented by the UN, conveniently just in time for Iran to start perpetrating shenanigans for real.
