We (the Lolwaffles) had a big old talk about the F-35 a while back. It's a damn fine piece of kit, top notch stuff...but the price makes its deployment viability restrictive. You would only send it into missions where you could guarantee that it wouldn't get shot at, which defeats the entire point of a war machine. In the end, you're probably better with the latest version of the F-18, but that would mean that we'd have to completely redesign our carriers, which would mean that we would probably wind up not being able to afford even a single one.
Come to think of it, didn't the Enterprise get decommed a while ago?
