He added that the Libya campaign had showed how Britain could use its bases and over-flight rights to "project decisive air power", before its new aircraft carrier capability came into service.
The aircraft had a multi-role capability with advance weaponry, the latest camera technology for intelligence gathering and short take off capability for aircraft carrier duties.
The Public Accounts Committee (at 3.15pm) takes time out from chastising big companies over their tax arrangements to revisit a golden oldie - the troubled programme to provide the Navy with new aircraft carriers and strike capability.
For example, their SA-12 missile, nominally an anti-aircraft missile, also has capability against tactical ballistic missiles.
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The decision to axe the Ark will leave the Navy without the capability of launching fixed wing aircraft.
"We are collecting in-service aircraft components to asses the remaining characteristics and capability in terms of stress and fatigue, " says Olivier Malavallon, project director of business development and change at Airbus.
Specifically, there has been no decision to ensure dual-capability in the next generation of tactical aircraft, and there is no planning for a next generation of a sea-based nuclear land-attack missile.
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If successful, the X-47B would claim two firsts for an unmanned jet: in-flight fueling capability, and launch and landing aboard Navy aircraft carriers.
"A genuine strategic air power must possess a strong power projection capability, which is highly reliant on large aircraft, namely a strategic air freighter and a strategic bomber, " said Wang Yanan, deputy editor in chief at Aerospace Knowledge magazine and a military analyst, in a China Daily report.
We also on occasion do use our unmanned aircraft for purposes, again, because we have a unique capability to assist in this mission.
This concept emphasizes the ability of new weapons, sensors, and unmanned systems to expand the reach, capability and persistence of our current manned ships and aircraft.
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"It's a great aircraft for us because of its short take off and landing capability, but they are not easy to get hold of because they are so popular, which is why we had to go to Canada, " Skybus chief executive Jeff Marston said.
Independent Capability: Proponents contend that, given the fact that the Japanese have already designed the FS-X predecessor (the F-1) and have coproduced the F-4 and F-15 fighter aircraft with McDonnell-Douglas, the Japanese have an independent capability, with time, to design and produce the FS-X.
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In fact, SLCMs permit virtually every combatant ship in the inventory to enjoy a crucial capability which once resided exclusively in the relatively small number of aircraft carriers: the ability to defend itself and to project naval power over great ranges by holding at risk enemy shipping and targets ashore.
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Newly conceived as the Nextant 400XT, the old aircraft received a total top-to-bottom makeover remarkably boosting performance, capability and functionality.
The aircraft carriers that were already deployed provided an immediate, credible, and lasting combat capability until the other carriers and shore based forces could flow into the area.
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Earlier this year that process of review led the government to decide that the existing package of measures for in-flight security should be reinforced, and deterrence increased, by the development of a capability to place covert, specially trained armed police officers aboard UK civil aircraft, should that be warranted.
An unmanned aircraft like N-UCAS solves both these problems at once, providing a cost-effective capability that allows the carriers to find and attack terrorists and insurgents, and also to counter cruise and ballistic missile threats from a survivable distance.
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