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Any chance the UK can get a refund then? "Before the end of this decade, the F-35 Lightning will provide the ultimate punch of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth

Any chance the UK can get a refund then? "Before the end of this decade, the F-35 Lightning will provide the ultimate punch of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. The F-35 is an Anglo-American joint effort, designed by the best and brightest in the two nations’ aircraft industries."

arethuza 6y ago
For anyone wondering the UK's new carriers explicitly rejected the traditional CATOBAR approach to take-offs and landings in favour of a design that pretty much requires the F35B STOVL variant.
- Pxtl 6y ago
  Such carriers could still be used for the UK's Harrier jump-jets, couldn't it?
  - Someone1234 6y ago
    The UK doesn't own any Harrier jump-jets. They sold them all to the US Marines.