Can somebody tell me why we are buying the STOVL version of F35 when we are also buying two bloody great 50K ton carriers?
The publicly stated reason is that the Navy version has an inservice date a few years to late for our needs whilist the "in the mud" version is within our timeframe. But when as everyone knows these things will get delayed (as they always do) you wonder why they bother. Susposedly the Cv's will have a CTOL capability from scratch so as to make them future proof for a future buy of E2's but this is obviously ear marked for a future budget cut
