Message posted by C. Reed on February 19, 2011 at 6:28:19 PST:
that the USMC wanted a fighter-attack type that could operate from the Gator carriers. That means a V/STOL, and the only real option for them was to get into the JSF program with a variant thereof; there was no realistic hope of buying an all-new aircraft designed solely for them.
In Reply to: USMC should look elsewhere posted by reeb88 on February 18, 2011 at 19:23:44 PST:
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