Why is the RAF buying the F-35?
Why is the RAF buying the F-35? And why is the RAF buying the VSTOL version of the F-35 instead of the conventional take off and landing version?
Export F-35 sales are good for the US economy, which is good. However, if I were British, I'd be asking why the Typhoon cannot be evolved into a multirole aircraft that can do air to ground as well as air to air, thereby making F-35 acquisition unnecessary.
And why buy the "jump jet" version? Does the RAF have the rather silly attitude of some PeePruners that take offs and landings `a la mode Harrier are some sort of deep profound, and indepensable British trait, akin to .... I dunno, bad teeth, fretting about class differences, and spanking fetishes.
I don't get it. The RAF would be better off with CTOL F-35's or maybe no F-35's whatsoever and improved, further developed Typhoons.
Last edited by Modern Elmo; 28th Mar 2011 at 02:08.