Reply to post: Re: Why go totally F-35?

Once again, UK doesn't rule out buying F-35A fighter jets

RPF

Re: Why go totally F-35?

No way its take-off run would triple.

Plus you're thinking still-wind distances. A 30-knot carrier steaming into a 20-knot wind would massively reduce the distance.

Then you just bolt on a ski-jump.

It would work.

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