V/STOL
Show me an F-35 A or C model which can work from a Forward Operating Base, with the carrier safely out of the way.
Remember, a bright guy in the Argentinian forces converted a ship-launched Exocet .38 to fire from a truck ( although on the wrong side, I've always felt he deserved a medal for that, though the victims on HMS Glamorgan might disagree ).
Even the Khat-happy Somalis might get something similar one day, and be a danger after the first few tries with the thing pointing the opposite direction towards their chums.