Merlin wrote:


What has no validity is your continual ranting about further
development of
a program that most posters have already well informed you is about
at the
end of its development potential. You started this argument once
before, and
a number of folks provided well reasoned arguments that pretty much
destroyed your basic premises (you could not even get the basic facts
right
about the mechanics of the F-35B's vertical propulsion, for gosh
sakes). Why
don't you first address the points that were raised then, instead of
bull-headedly restating the same clap-trap?
SO WHAT FILLS THE RETIREMENT OF THE INEVITABLY LATE F-35B AND THE
HARRIER IN NAVIES OTHER THAN THE US NAVY.

You seem to have a problem with your Caps lock key.

Guy