Originally Posted by
stilton
Are the decks treated appropriately to allow for the jet blast from an F35 as well ?
The deck is not reinforced or covered to be able to take the get blast from F-35's.
Because it was built as amphibous ship, much of a aviation side of fitting were removed on converted in fuction. ie the amount of avgas it contains was changed to other fuels. some of the ammunition elevators were not installed. So the ship would have limited capacity to operate harriers even. If we wanted something to operate F-35 probably cheaper to buy something else than convert one of these