I always thought that was an inelegant solution to a design requirement that shouldn't be there. The Chinese equivalent doesn't have it or even room for it. Just take off from a strip, what even is the scenario that requires a VTOL and also a fighter?
The marine version is. There's a big fan right in the middle.
lmao so they wasted even more money turning this shitty plane into a shitty VTOL plane that can't even land.
They needed a a regular, carrier, and a vtol version, all of which have the same airframe and non-flight capabilities (ecm, tracking, stealth).
It's expensive to make 3 planes with such strong non-flying capability.
I always thought that was an inelegant solution to a design requirement that shouldn't be there. The Chinese equivalent doesn't have it or even room for it. Just take off from a strip, what even is the scenario that requires a VTOL and also a fighter?
The scenario is that the Marines haven't been disbanded for some complicated reason that can't really be explained.
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