Cable Forum - View Single Post - UK will be buying the F-35b after all.

**Chris** · 10-05-2012, 21:21

Our top serving soldier thinks this is a good decision.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...essential.html

If choosing version B over version C means there are now prospects of having planes on the flight decks of our carriers in 2018 rather than 2023, and of being able to choose to operate both carriers rather than mothballing one of them, then that surely is a good thing.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,388	Re: UK will be buying the F-35b after all. Our top serving soldier thinks this is a good decision. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/n...essential.html If choosing version B over version C means there are now prospects of having planes on the flight decks of our carriers in 2018 rather than 2023, and of being able to choose to operate both carriers rather than mothballing one of them, then that surely is a good thing.