Royal Navy pensando en comprar Rafale para sus portaaviones

[amalahama]

O Superhornets. O quizás volver al F-35B? Aunque lo veo más una medida de presión al programa F-35 que otra cosa...

 

MoD might have to rethink fighter jet choice

 

26 January 2012

The Times

 

The Royal Navy may have to buy French fighter jets for Britain’s new aircraft

carrier amid growing doubts over the American‐designed Joint Strike Fighter

(JSF), a senior officer has warned.

 

Admiral Sir Trevor Soar, who retires as Commander‐in‐Chief Fleet in March,

told industrialists that there was mounting concern within the Ministry of

Defence about the escalating costs and delays to the JSF programme.

In a detailed note of his speech to the ADS Maritime Interest Group, seen by

The Times, Admiral Soar warned that US defence spending cuts could jeopardise

the deal.

 

He was quoted as saying that Britain might do better to invest in what he

called an “interim aircraft capability" and named two potentially cheaper

alternatives – the American‐built F18 Super Hornet or the French Dassault

Rafale jet. The carrier is due to be ready in 2019 but Britain might not

acquire the JSF until a decade later, Admiral Soar suggested.

 

The US is due to cut $487 billion (£312 billion) from defence spending over

the next decade but this could rise to a $1 trillion. And as the Pentagon cuts

its order of JSF aircraft, the overall cost per plane rises steadily. They

already cost $100 million each.

 

Leon Panetta, the US Defence Secretary, acknowledged last week that the JSF

programme may be delayed.

 

Admiral Soar told his audience last month that the developments were

potentially “game changing" for Britain and predicted that the purchase of JSF

will be the big question in Britain’s 2015 strategic defence review. Britain

has invested £2 billion in the programme and components for the JSF will be

made in British factories. The aircraft was due to be delivered in 2018.

 

MoD officials said that contingencies are now being considered with discussion

on whether to change the variant of JSF Britain buys, or to purchase a

different aircraft. Elizabeth Quintana, of the Royal United Services Institute

think‐tank, said: “Most of the JSF partner [nations] are having to look at

other options. There are no fixed costs; they are going ever upwards and if

they cross a certain threshold Britain will have to look to buy elsewhere."

In the Strategic Defence Review of 2010, the Government said it would change

the JSF variant it was buying from the short take‐off Variant B to the Variant

C. Now, The Times understands, there is a renewed MoD consideration for the

Variant B, backed strongly by Mr Panetta this week.

 

Jim Murphy, the Shadow Defence Secretary, said: “There will be very grave

concerns that problems with JSF may lead to the Government purchasing an

interim aircraft at a time of deep defence cuts. We need to know whether money

already spent on this project would be wasted."

 

The MoD declined to comment.

 

Saludos!!

[Davicico]

Esto empieza a ser de locos, esto es tanto peor como los periódicos deportivos con los fichajes

 

Salu2!!

Edited January 27, 2012 by Davicico

[Stark]

Mou quiere fichar al rafaele para la proxima temporada, y ponerle mano a mano junto con pepe,uno pisando manos y el otro lanzando Sparrow´s

[joseye]

Parece ser que dice Mou que la única forma de parar a Messi es con un caza de última generación, y como se meta en el area, pepino a la espinilla.

[Centauro81]

Pero los británicos ya no tienen portaaviones con capacidad para operar el Rafale o el F18E, no??

 

Vamos creo que el único que tienen es el HMS Illoustrius:

 

 

 

Un saludo

[Shory]

Lo que quieren es a esta Refaeli. Que va mu bien armá, jajaja.

 

[darthkata]

Yo también voto por Bar

 

Centauro mira ver si te suena Class Queen Elisabeth