Originally Posted by
Not_a_boffin
Can only echo Engines' fine post and add that the CVSG(R), CV(R) and CV(F) requirement definition work was all aircraft-agnostic, in that it was not centred around STOVL JSF (or SSF, CALF or other predecessors).
Indeed, one published RN study for a future aircraft carrier in the late 90s had FA-18E/F and E-2C 'boxes' marked on the hangar plan. Regarding a navalised Typhoon, there was a minor effort by BAE to promote such a thing, including a STOLVL variant, and there was another attempt to sell the same idea to India more recently
It's interesting to note that as early as 1997, it was being rep[orted that the RN's preference was the STOVL version of what was then JSF
https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarch...0-%200800.html