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F-35 Lightning II and VF-4 Lightning III

I've been wondering, what exactly are the US and Japan getting by agreeing to let Britain keep the two power standard anyways?

Blue cat was referring to the Iroquois-class destroyers which were also known as the Tribal-class.

USN F-15N-PHX Sea Eagle vs Soviet Sukhoi Su-33 over the Bering Sea.

Japanese Type 90s fighting Russian T-90s during a hypothetical Second Russo-Japanese War.

Panavia Tornado 2000

Fairchild-Republic's entrant to the USAF's F-X program A pair of Fleet Air Arm Hawker P.1121s in flight

IIRC, the Type 42 Batch 3s weren't stretched so much as they were using the original design, rather than the cut down version that the first two batches were.

Or heck, just remember to replace Victorious' worn out boilers and machinery on the first go and use the time and money save to modernize Implacable as well.

Given the occasional idea of having Britain and France jointly develop nuclear submarines, what about including Italy in the mix? In the late 1950s, Italy was looking at building an SSN and SSBN based on the USN Skipjack-class. They were also apparently developing their own SLBM as well.

Turkey's first stealth fighter, the TAI TF Kaan, on taxi trials in March 2023.

From an industrial standpoint, France actually builds the eight pre-production Mirage 4000s requested by Saudi Arabia and secures the Saudi order for 300 aircraft.

There was also the CSGN Mk.II as well which was basically an American equivalent to the Kiev-class with AEGIS as well.

WI: What if Yugoslavia was a founding member of NATO?

F-15 Eagle model with AIM-54 Phoenix missiles mounted on FAST packs Lockheed Martin QF-35 Lightning II Stealthy tailless F-15E variant proposed by McDonnell-Douglas for South Korea's F-X program.