The F35 is just a stealth movable radar and the Navy is just transport for vertical launch cells that are used to shoot offensive missiles like the Tomahawk and

The F35 is just a stealth movable radar and the Navy is just transport for vertical launch cells that are used to shoot offensive missiles like the Tomahawk and defensive missiles like the referenced SM-3. The future of warfare is crazy. If war ever breaks out in the Pacific you’ll probably have the combatants launch all of their missiles at each other in the initial days of the fight and whoever has ships/planes/missiles remaining at the end “wins”.