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Originally Posted by Lurchi
The Spitfire & Mosquito with Merlin engine?
How about the 15inch Mk. I gun and the Spearfish torpedo also Trafalgar submarines?
I think the Brits (or Europe) just don't boast so much - that doesn't mean that there is no adequate technology available ...
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Fair enough. But I'd take a DB601 over a Merlin anyday. Or a Junkers Jumo, or a BMW 004. Kudos to the Brits, though for their part in the Avro-Lycoming turbine
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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
I thought the Challenger 2 was a fine tank. And the Centurion. Sea Harriers are the only successful VTOL aircraft in history.
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Firstly, Sea Harriers are most certainly not the only successful VTOLs, by which I assume you mean VTOL fixed-wing aircraft. The Yakolev Yak-38 Forger and AV8-B Harrier II both out-class it. The V-22 Osprey is another successful design, despite the extraordinarily inefficient development process. The whole reason that some British vessels are equipped with "ski-jumps" is because the Sea Harrier could not provide adequate lift capability in vertical take offs. A problem that the aforementioned examples lack. It's a superb plane, make no mistake, but it isn't the only one, and it isn't the best.
As far as the Challenger and Centurion go, both are outmoded in terms of the modern first-world MBT. They did, admittedly, outclass the U.S.'s remarkably terrible M60 and variants thereof, but they lacked the quantity, ease of manufacture, and ruggedness of the equivalent area Soviet tanks, especially considering the manufacturing capabilities of the U.K. Both are inferior to the Leopard 1, and the M1 abrams, so while they may be decent tanks, I'd hardly consider them a credit to the British armour legacy.