Under the last government, a decision was made to order the short take-off and vertical landing version.

Disagreement over whether the new carriers should have short takeoff and vertical landing jets with shorter range or more powerful fighters launched by expensive catapults has led to soaring costs.

In addition to vertical landing, it can also land by taxiing.

First aircraft capable of demonstrating transition from short take-off to supersonic flight to vertical landing on the same sortie.

He was a pioneer of reusable vertical landing single-stage to orbit launch vehicles.