A Foxtrot Alpha haiku:

F-35 will not carry AIM-9, ASRAAM or IRIS-T operationally. One, because AIM-9 is rail launched and physically can’t be fired from the bay. Two, the other two IR missiles will never be carried internally because that means trading a MRM for a SRM. That makes zero sense given the aircraft’s capabilities and tactics.

F-35 will be able to carry 4xAMRAAM + 2XSIDEWINDER with a later software. The aircraft that other countries are getting are functionally identical. (Unless they want different capability, like the brit's rolling landing and the Israeli's modifications)

It’s that the pistol is held sideways that increases the badassery!

“You choose to simply laugh at the section on passive stealth, which is pulled from various authorities with applicable knowledge. It shows that you are here not to help a debate progress or to inform but simply to heckle.”

“The cannon, has in fact been fired in air, though the door sometimes doesn’t close, hardware and software side are still arguing. There is also still the small issue of its ammo supply, as in it is very small.”

Posting a link to a 100-page PDF over & over again is not a counter argument.

Ladies and gentleman, this window licking idiot is what’s wrong with the F-35 program. They are keeping the populace in the loop and as a result we comments like this.

“The answer to thess is yes.”

Much is..... but not all by any stretch.

You’re not far off target! At the height of the cold war, they had a political party (I can’t judge its significance through the fogs of time) vying for country leadership, whose only half joking idea for the whole defense budget was to replace its armed forces with border signs that said, in Russian, “we give up”.

The numbers you are using are not in any way based on reality or flyaway cost.

Everything you wrote was wrong.

Renewed Russian hostility.

Particular parts built for the U.S. articles come off the assembly line fully finished, while those destined for foreign FACOs are shipped out in their primer coat.

I call them teething problems with the hindsight that just about every major military program has significant issues early in its career.

No airframe issues, yes it has fired its gun, the avionics are what the 2012 re baseline said they would be, it has already fired our two most advanced A2A missiles, oxygen you’re thinking of the F-22, no it has the exact weapons planed for this date, the ACM abilities are better than an F-16 all day long and it…

Its a superior strike aircraft right now, but it isn’t exactly the best fighter, AFAIK...

The Danes have only 30 operable F-16s at this point... so it is practically like for like.

In terms of weapons though, I’m not sure the US will hold the edge.