F-35B - RAF/RN designation?
Apologies if this has been asked and answered elsewhere (I did try and check), but do we yet know what the F-35B will be called - formally, at least - in UK service?
To the best of my knowledge we've never stuck a 'II' at the end of a name, either when using one for the second (or third?) time, or when buying an American type like the Phantom II. In the former case, the original almost always pre-dated the current designation system, so there wasn't any problem making the new one F.1 or GR.1, with the exception of the Harrier II, which jumped straight in as Harrier GR.5.
On that basis is it fair to expect the Lightning FGR.7 (or FGR.8 if it's deemed that the F.7 did actually exist on paper), or is it going to be a law unto itself?