PM's floating fighter jet plan quietly sunk by Defence | afr.com
Prime Minister Tony Abbott's proposal to put F-35 fighter jets on the Navy's two 27,000-tonne troop transport assault ships has been quietly dropped ahead of the government's defence white paper after it was found the ships would require extensive reworking and the project was too costly.
F35B's might not have been a bad idea for them but it seems it's not doable (for now?).