assuming we continue to field Tommahawk SLCM's do we really need the 'first day' capability that JSF offers?
if Typhoon T3 could be navalised, would the long-term cost savings of having one AC type as the vast majority of the fast jet fleet cover the redevelopment cost and would the proposed carriers have to be significantly (or more acurately, expensively) redesigned?
and would the range/sort of stealthyness/ECM suite of Typhoon, added to storm shadow ALCM capability, effectively mean that the JSF+JDAM first day capability was matched anyway?
Cheers, CC