Hang on a Mo'....did someone suggest the vast preponderance of pointy nosed aircraft on floating bird farms were there to protect the bird farm?
If they did....give the man a Gold Star....send him to the front of the class!
Our guy Lehman and the Six Hundred Ship Navy proved that to be a fact.
As there is a shortage of CV's (the steel kind) at the moment....would not keeping the focus on land based pointy nosed things make more sense?
SVTOL pointy nosed things have some very big shortcomings....and unless doing Blue Water Navy ops....would not land based aircraft be far more bang for the buck....er Quid?
In light of past "Tri-Service" airplane projects.....is it not insane to repeat efforts hoping for different outcomes?