If I may answer that, sir, I don't think deficient at all. Again, sir, F-35 does not replace the Super Hornet. Those two platforms are side by side on the carrier deck, and if you look at numbers on the carrier deck, it's a two-to-one ratio, with two Super Hornets per F-35, well out past 2035 or 2040. So again, I would prefer the discussion be around the complementary nature of those two, as opposed to navy being deficient and selecting one or the other, again, because they will be side by side for a long time, sir.
On November 4th, 2010. See this statement in context.