Hilarious... Makes me think about the taxes I pay, but it's hilarious somehow...

Well mate, what do you want? It's not the engineers who are faulty, they get the job done. But the decision making is a real issue.

You have to negociate a lot before doing anything... The Americans have a much better decision making scheme.

But I think that comparing France with the US isnt very fair...

There is a lot of things to fix in this country, but the potential is here... Now, it's sad to see this potential missused...

Seehund, are you aware of the fact that Mistral and Nimitz are of absolutely different classes and were created for absolutely different purposes? Besides if we're talking about Russia case... firstly, the only country that needs ships like Nimitz is the US - one and only, and secondly, more likely the hell freezes over rather than Russia buys aircraft carriers from the United States.

Yes, I think that I can tell the difference between the two ships.
I know the Mistral class and it did not impressed me. The British Ocean class is an appreciably better ship.

Originally Posted by Seehund

Yes, I think that I can tell the difference between the two ships.
I know the Mistral class and it did not impressed me. The British Ocean class is an appreciably better ship.

Well, the contract was open. Britain did not make an offer. No offer, no business. Sorry

Originally Posted by Shmack

and secondly, more likely the hell freezes over rather than Russia buys aircraft carriers from the United States.

Even if Russia & the United States were the best of pal's, the Russians wouldn't want to buy a US Aircraft carrier. I think it was said before, but the role of the current Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is much different than the roles of US Aircraft carriers such as the Nimitz.

From my understanding, the main role of the Kuznetsov is to babysit Russian submarines, but I am not 100% sure on that.