I still come back to the incredible stupidity of not putting a cat and trap on the new carriers. Is the carrier tied to the F35? Will it not outlast the F35? Even allowing for the fact that certain well-known personalities in the department/Navy are closely invested in the F35, nevertheless with a cat and trap the carriers could operate more types if necessary. As it is, they can't. So what happens if there really is a catastrophic F35 problem (which could yet happen) what then? Do we cart the carriers back to the ship yard and do a LOT of oxy cutting to get a catapult into them? And with the obsolescence of the stealth technology, I still think we would have been better with the FA-18. (which has already been said countless times here and elsewhere by others)