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[–] novictim ago 

About damn time. And there needs to be an independent body who can put the kibosh on idiotic concepts before they ever hoover up public dollars.

A flying Swiss Army knife of an aircraft should not have made it out of committee. You cannot have comparative excellence in all the roles proposed for the F-35, Yet no "Adults" found the means to step forward until now. Pathetic.

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[–] AnthraxAlex 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

What they need to do is strip down the damn thing and stop using it to try and fill every fucking roll. In all honesty the F-35 should have never been purchased and instead used as a tech demonstrator. They should just design a new aircraft designed to fill the stol/vtol close air support roll using what they learned from the F-35. Take the F-22 and harden it for carrier launch for the Air superiority roll and then fill in gaps with super hornets. None of this shit will mater in 10 years anyway because no manned aircraft is going to survive being swarmed by hundreds of unmanned drones. Instead manned fighters will most likely loiter in the back and provide command and control for drones.