The vertical takeoff is cool. A huge aircraft carrier is a giant, expensive target. One could distribute a lot of F35s among a lot of small LHA-type ships.
But I'm thinking that piloted planes will be obsolete.
English somehow became the universal language. Most of the europeans that I've worked with spoke excellent English.
We have friends, a married-couple, Swedish and French. They speak English to one another. They are trying to teach their kids all three, which is interesting.
Look at Street View all over the world. So much signage is in English. I tried to buy The Brat a japanese-language baseball cap when I was in Japan, but all the team names are in English.