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Old 26th May 2014, 19:43
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No vertical landings planned yet in the UK visit:

Why Can?t America?s Newest Stealth Jet Land Like It?s Supposed To? - The Daily Beast

Matters less than it might if the Marines are correct in predicting that one operation in ten will be a VL: they may not be planning even to match the "one off-main-base action per major war" standard that they set in four decades of the Harrier. But... Guadalcanal, I suppose. It only cost $21 billion or so.
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