(Yet the F-35 is doing exactly that)
Read this weak understanding of tac-air (USMC or otherwise).
Command and control stovepipes within the task organizations of the Navy and Marine Corps must be dismantled, with a common command structure implemented that sees the land power of the Marine Corps as one of its several primary tools. With the fielding of the VSTOL variant of the F-35B, Marine tactical aviation must necessarily evolve from its singular focus on ground support to a broader mission in support of the Seapower Task Force.
My comment at the bottom states:
You are aware are you not that the F-35 does not work? It is troubled, it is overweight. basic fuel consumption with hot-and-high and the 1500ibs of fuel needed for thermal shedding on recovery indicate a flight time of about 40-45 minutes with no fuel reserves. To date, no one has demonstrated how to change its $27M engine aboard ship. The most optimistic figure (via DOD budgets) is that this weak, defective and insanely expensive aircraft will take about $51B of the USMC tac air budget (as a program of record). The F-35 is too weak to take on emerging threats and too expensive to own and operate for any other threats handled by today's technology. That and STOVL has had no practical use in U.S. warfighting. (Google: "UPDATE- Marine questions value of STOVL Harrier and F-35B")
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-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
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