Re: Sea Jet
I would like to think this is just posturing by the US administration, but these stories seem to be popping up with alarming regularity. If the F35B goes then there are following options:
1. Build some more Harriers
2. F/A-18
3. F-35C
4. Rafale
5. Russian kit
The last won't happen, The Rafale production line is so slow they could never deliver the a/c we need in time. The UK will want to get payback for the $2b it has invested in the F-35, so the F-35C looks the most likely IMHO.
If they do bin the B, waht does the USMC get to fly off its expensive new class of Amphibious Assault ships? Kites?