Good idea. Serves both our countries’ interests.
F-35s don’t carry enough ordinance to be an effective air strike craft.
Strange place for a commanding officer’s suite.
Whose going to pay the price to fly an F35 which costs approximately $32K per hour to fly? A waste of money. They overspent so we pick up the tab for their vanity?
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“He said: “I can welcome the commitment of the United States to deploying F-35s on the first operational deployment of Queen Elizabeth – the HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2021. And in the fullness of time, we expect our F-35s to be welcome on the American carriers.””
We’ll take some RN exchange pilots, but not an operational squadron, I think.