gergf-14 wrote:Yeah spaz you probably right, with heads like that, it is a wonder how they manage to pass through the door ways below!
It just seems like wasted space by not squaring it off, unless they also need a tanning section on long cruises....!

Using that same section for tanning wouldn't be a bad idea at all, unless you're cruising around the North Atlantic or Artic circle...
However as you can easily see, that same section is used to install SAM launchers (you know, those things that shoot missiles against incoming hostile aircraft and/or missiles

) and the "empty" space around the SAM launcher is probably there for expandability reasons (to install a second SAM launcher, a gun system, a new fire control radar, a tanning section, etc...) or it can simply be used to store SAM missile reloads (in order to quickly reload that SAM launcher)

A 4th/4.5th gen fighter aircraft stands about as much chance against a F-35 as a guns-only Sabre has against a Viper.