UK Aircraft Carrier Plans In Confusion As Ministers Revisit Square One -- The Guardian
Decision expected by Easter on which US joint strike fighter Britain will buy: ministers now want to revert to original choice
Britain's troubled and increasingly expensive plan to equip the navy with new aircraft carriers has been plunged into fresh turmoil as ministers consider reversing their earlier decision to change the type of plane that should fly from them, it has emerged.
The government announced in last autumn's strategic defence review that it had decided to buy the "cats and flaps" (catapults and arrester gear) version of the US joint strike fighter. This would have a "longer range and greater payload ... the critical requirement for precision-strike operations in the future", the government stated.
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My Comment: What can one say about a country that is building an aircraft carrier that they will moth-ball as soon as it is finished .... but that is Britain today. Confusion over what fighter aircraft to choose is just another symptom of this lack of leadership and direction.