Re: The GZG Digest V2 #2328

DOCAgren@aol.com wrote:

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> Maybe I'm wrong here, but doesn't Thailand still have an old UK 
> Carrier, converted to VTOL use?

G'Day

Actually it's a new build (commissioned 1997) variation of the Spanish 
Principe de Asturias class CVL (if I remember correctly it has one 
propeller and shaft while the Spanish ship has two) which itself was 
based on the aborted US Navy design for a sea control ship (a small 
light carrier designed to control the area of the surrounding sea, SCS. 
Right now ex-SFB players who never made the connection should finally be

going Ahhhh!) . The Royal Thai Navy did acquire about 6-8 second hand 
AV-8S Matadors (Spanish version of the Harrier) but for most of it's 
service life it has been used as helicopter carrier and patrol vessel 
rather than carrier launching fighter jets.

Apparently it has (or at least had) a suite decked out for the Thai 
royal family as well.

Cheers

Derek

BTW like before. I did not say this, I was never here and these STILL 
aren't the droids you are looking for.

-- 
Derek Fulton.
Tasmania, Australia.
http://www.users.bigpond.com/derekfulton/