Re: Genuine question
Sod the F35, let's just build a shitload of Sea Hornets (with a modern radar).
If the route is dump the F-35's the route might as well be lets just build for a crapload of drones and call it job done. It's about projecting the power to dump armaments precisely on targets anyway, they're not for air-to-air engagements (this is why you have carrier groups so you never have to).
Carry drones on ships (which can now be smaller and thus cheaper) and have more of them than a compliment of F35's on a carrier. I'd always been a proponent of UK carriers right up until this occurred to me - why even bother having manned attack aircraft on naval vessels in the 21st century?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
