our government is set to announce we are going to purchase 138 F35’s ,
the aim is to ensure we have the second most potent carrier force after the US .
at least we seem to actually be waking up to the fact we need more than 4 planes
there was a big worry in the UK that we was not even going to purchase enough to fill our carriers (they can hold about 40 jets each ) but this seems to suggest we will indeed fill the carriers up , not with 40 on each however as we will also have helicopters on board , appache’s , wild cats , merlins and Chinook’s so that it can deal with any operation . exactly how many jets the navy will get will be the next question , and the rest would go to the RAF
things look positive , lets just hope the F35 is sorted out . it seems to be finally coming together . as well as our typhoons being massively upgraded with the brimestone being fitted to them for Air to ground attack as well as someother additions designed to bring it up to next gen level without building a new jet from scratch .
the brimestone is designed to take out a swarm of tanks and other vehicles all at once , seriously deadly missile