Friday, 19 November 2021

Carrier Strike Group 21: One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing

 
F35s launch from HMS Queen Elizabeth as pilots from the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force conduct Carrier Qualification on the 16th of October 2019
 
 
A pilot has been rescued and an aircraft salvage operation is underway after a Lightning II aircraft from Her Majesty's Ship Queen Elizabeth crashed in the Mediterranean Sea on the Seventeenth of November,TwentyTwenty-one,the Royal Navy has not yet confirmed rumours that a rainbow flag become entangled in the aircraft's lift fan when an attempt to create a hostile work environment for Muslim sailors went horribly wrong.
 
Two Lightnings landing on HMS Queen Elizabeth as part of Exercise Strike Warrior on the 15th of May 2021
 
 
Due to it's complex vertical lift system,the F-35B variant of the Lightning II aircraft used by the United Kingdom is likely to have higher accident rates than the conventional variants and be more expensive to buy,more expensive to operate,generate lower sortie rates,carry lower payloads,have less range,have less endurance,be less maneuverable and require more aircraft and more aerial refuelling to do the same work.

Official portrait of Mr Philip Hammond the former Secretary of State for Defence who misled Parliament on Thursday the 10th of May 2012
 
 
There is a name for people who think such aircraft are a good idea,they are called Philip Hammonds.
 

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