Perhaps one for ICBM and SSSEOWTF:
Exactly how deployable and flexible is the F35B?
I have in one mind's eye Harrier Ops of camouflaged hides and the chaps ready to stand to with blunt bayonet and sad shaking of head from RAF Regt Sgt.
Meanwhile the conventional air force is being bombed in its HAS or has its runway cratered.
Great use of flexible asset.
Fast forward half a century.
In my other mind's eye I have a highly sophisticated machine that can land in a small space/ on a small strip then await the C-130 / C-17 with countless containers of kit, mission planner, miscellaneous 'plane-talks-to-maintainer' computer, squipper lorry for care of that wonderful looking helmet etc.
Meanwhile the conventional airforce is a good 100 nm back happy as Larry and the CVN boys are somewhere in their (not fixed, quite hard to find and sink) platform using their extra 300 nm of range to good effect and stepping ashore to well found airfields when it suits them.
Not an F35B expert, hence asking the experts' advice.
Regards, orca.