An absolute must read!

Elements of Power Blogspot hits back on Sweetman's latest post with cold hard facts.  Its a must read.  Go to his site for the whole thing but here's a tidbit.

Sweetman was taking what turned out to be a fairly gratuitous swipe at the F-35B’s raison d’être. Gratuitous, because he immediately changed the subject for the rest of the post with an awful(ly) lightweight critique of the ‘LHA/D-as-aircraft-carrier’ idea. I won’t dwell too much on what turned in to the main thrust of his agitprop in this post. Instead, I’d like to focus on his ‘damning with faint praise’ sucker-punch on the B’s STOVL capability as quoted above.

 That's within the first paragraph and it only gets better from there.  Elements of Power, you rock guy!