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The Navy has planned to buy about 480 of the aircraft-carrier version of the F-35, even as the stealth fighter's costs have skyrocketed and the Navy prepares to shrink its fleet of ships for lack of money. A magazine column by Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, the chief of naval operations, suggests they may not be needed. (U.S. Air Force via Associated Press)

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**FILE** Pedestrians use an elevated makeshift walkway to avoid the floodwaters in Bangkok on Nov. 10, 2011. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2012, Ryan Newman drives his car during qualifying for the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race in Daytona Beach, Fla. The U.S. Army will not return to Stewart-Haas Racing next season, citing a reallocation of its marketing budget that does not include a presence in NASCAR. SHR said Tuesday, July 10, 2012, it is pursuing a new sponsor. (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay, File)

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An 11-foot alligator that attacked a teenage swimmer is pulled from the water after it was killed on Monday evening, July 9, 2012, in the Caloosahatchee River near Moore Haven, Fla., in this image taken from video. (AP Photo/WBBH-TV)

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Italian Finance Minister Mario Monti (right) talks with Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guindos Jurado during the meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels on Tuesday, July 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

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Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, lies embalmed in his tomb on Moscow's Red Square on Wednesday, April 16, 1997, six days before his 127th birthday on April 22. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin)

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Visitors check out an aircraft on display at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England, on Monday, July 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (center) leaves Jerusalem's District Court on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, following a verdict hearing at which he was cleared of the major charges in a corruption trial that forced him from power. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

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Gio Gonzalez (right) never seems to be at a loss for words, much to the amusement of fellow pitcher Stephen Strasburg (left). (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)