[SauronOfMordor]

Shows to go ya that the Navy is in great need of a new carrier based warplane. Both are long in the tooth...

The Joint Strike FIghter is supposed to fill that role

[brainstem223]

Should be on carrier decks no sooner than 2020 if the pace of development of the F22 is any example of the furious pace of fighter development these days.

Using no computer aided design, we could put a plane from concept to combat in less than a year during WWI...