[GBA]

They're going to have to be happy with it for the next several decades and they had better hope that it can handle any threats that any potential enemy can put up against it as there isn't anything else for the Navy.

I'm sure the some of the roughly 200 or so F-22s can somehow manage to be where ever the Navy might happen to be to protect the Navy from what their OLD F-18s and out classed F-35s can't handle.

[Magnum44]

Folks made similar arguments about the F-18 when it first came out. The Hornet now has more combat experience than any other aircraft flying and is arguably the most succesful fighter/attack aircraft ever built.

The services put very tough requirements on F-35 and it has come through very succesfully. It will be a world class aircraft. And from my previous post to DevSix, the Navy wont need F-22 for fleet defense.