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.
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.