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Old 3rd Jan 2007, 15:42
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No folding wings on F-35B, and never have been even in the early JSF days. Weight, as usual, is the issue. The C will have wing folds.
Interesting that the CVF is unarmoured while CVN-21 will be better protected than any of the Nimitz class. The Navy talks little about that aspect of the carriers' design but I suspect that it has been improved as the class has evolved.
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