FB
What I was alluding to (maybe I was being too subtle) is that surely the job of a ‘multi-role’ fighter is to fulfil multiple different roles.
Many moons ago crews had to be trained specifically in discrete roles since our aircraft and weapons were not exactly high tech.
Nowadays aircraft avionics and platforms along with weapons systems are designed to make things simple.
I am not a Typhoon pilot so I will bow to the experience of any knowledgeable individual who can state otherwise (there may be obvious issues of security involved) but it doesn’t seem to me like it’d be very hard to target a ship with such a missile. Surely that is the point.
Now we would obviously like our F35s to be able to shoot ships since it will often launch from such vessels but I suspect it is a little more complicated, contract wise, to strap new weapons onto an aircraft we have bought off the shelf.
BV