Originally Posted by Finningley Boy
According to today's Times, service chiefs are urging the Government to stick with the F35B? I just don't understand this beyond any financial concerns. Is the ability to land vertically on carrier deck that preferable to range and capacity?
I saw that one of the reasons quoted by The Times, for going back to the B was that the F-35C couldn't be cross-decked operated off/on the French carrier......