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the Royal Navy needs a STOVL fighter-bomber to replace the Harrier since they don't have full-sized carriers

The QE class carriers are 50% larger than the French carrier that has cats’n’traps and can happily operate any navalized aircraft. It’s not that they’re too small. It’s that they were designed by idiots. Then more idiots signed the cheques for them.



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