[diogenes ghost]

"Swoose"

Yup, the LCS is the surface fleet version of the F-35.

[MasterGunner01]

Amen to that. The F-35 program is the bastard child of McNamara’s “Flying Edsel” (aka F-111A [USAF]/F-111B [USN]). The F-111B was junked and the best ideas folded into the F-14 Tomcat; the F-111 soldiered on for a couple of decades.