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mariuolo on June 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight

> The one EU nation that has to buy the F-35B is the UK. Because we're building a couple of supercarriers without catapults, so they've got to field STOVL planes,

Also Italy and Spain, for the same reason.

sspiff on June 30, 2015 [–]

Do all these nations use STOVL-only carrier designs? I thought there were conventional take-off carriers as well...

Or were these fleets built from passed-on UK carriers?

Edit: Just did some research, and apparently the countries mentioned here (UK, France and Spain) are currently operating STOVL design carriers.

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