What other aircraft?

You’re completely missing the point.

As far as an S-400 is concerned, the F-35 doesn’t exist.

It would be kinda hard to hide several hundred, carrier capable, front line fighters.

Now that you mention it, weren’t most of the Century series jets junk?

You should have heard the tirade my grandfather went on about the F-111 at an airshow in the mid 80s.

Yeah, because the world stopped using dollars decades ago when we went off the gold standard.

The F-22 isn’t air to ground.

Uh, we’ve gotten the jet down into the high eight figures, sir.

And yet I can trash them on Yelp or Google from across the country.

It was nice of you to give the Russians the morning off.

I understand cruisers. Just not this cruiser. It looks uncomfortable as hell.

Yup.

I’m starring any Futurama meme from this point forward.

In this case, I don’t think anyone else is buying it either.

Because you can’t launch an A-10 from one of the Corps’ little carriers.

You know, now that I think about it, an EF-35B makes a ton of sense.

I think they’ve proven the concept sufficiently enough to warrant a replacement down the road.

A pair of A-10s surprised the shit out of me by cruising the beach fifteen years ago.

I live near MacDill. It used to be a TAC base. F-16s all day.