I've just learned that HMS Ocean was sold to Brazil to replace their cranky Foch carrier.
And then all three Invincible-class carriers were sold for scrap to the same Turkish blowtorches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class_aircraft_carrier
The hell, was there no country in the entire world interested by a second-hand Invincible class ? Were they in such a poor shape, that nobody was interested in them ? Even if the Harrier is a temperamental aircraft to fly (just ask all those dead USMC pilots) one country could based attack choppers on them.
- checked, same for Principe de Asturias. Sold to Turkish scrapyards. If I were Turkey, I would have kept one of the Invicible as an helicopter carrier. I'm left wondering if Erdogan won't pull a Liaoning out of this. In the 90's the chinese famously build an impressive collection of carriers - Melbourne to Minsk - and we all know how that ended.
And then all three Invincible-class carriers were sold for scrap to the same Turkish blowtorches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class_aircraft_carrier
The hell, was there no country in the entire world interested by a second-hand Invincible class ? Were they in such a poor shape, that nobody was interested in them ? Even if the Harrier is a temperamental aircraft to fly (just ask all those dead USMC pilots) one country could based attack choppers on them.
- checked, same for Principe de Asturias. Sold to Turkish scrapyards. If I were Turkey, I would have kept one of the Invicible as an helicopter carrier. I'm left wondering if Erdogan won't pull a Liaoning out of this. In the 90's the chinese famously build an impressive collection of carriers - Melbourne to Minsk - and we all know how that ended.