Yawn, no wonder you are here and not in system and platform evaluations
UK slashes F-35B numbers but might look to split buy with F-35As
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UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the UK would order 48 F-35Bs to equip the UK's future carrier strike force. He added that a follow-on conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) F-35A would be set out in a future Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), with the aim of replacing the Eurofighter Typhoon in UK service.
We will not finalise our decisions on the F-35 programme until SDSR in 2015
dat581, there is a lot of automation on the f-35, freeing the pilot fot tactical, sld is the best site to read about it