F-35 Carrier Test USS Wasp.

[bongodriver]

Regarding UK choice for teh F35, I won't be surprised if in a decade the politics revert the move back from CToL to VTOL. We alrdy hve seen that with the F4 The worst of teh story was the selling of the entire Joint harrier force for 35M$.

Surprising statement, I don't see any reason, VTOL birds are going to be much more expensive and the new QE class carrier will be geared arount CTOL ops, we are after all talking about operating french units from UK carriers and the french don't have any VTOL, so I don't see an operational need for VTOL.

p.s. F4?

p.p.s. even more annoying was that we bought all our harriers from the US in the first place