Every pilot and country that isn’t the USA love the thing and are ordering more. Our own air force loves it. I don’t think that will be an issue.

What are the total overrun costs, do people even know that number? Or do they just hear the 1.5 Trillion! (which isn’t even true anymore it’s been revised down to 900…

It added cost to the F-35B but how did it add cost to the F-35A? How did it compromise the F-35A design?

Seriously, people bitch about this constantly yet they have literally no solid facts as to why. The lift fan replaced the internal fuel tank in the F-35B, so yeah it’s range is compromised, but the F-35A maintains…

I just quoted the price with engines based on reports to congress. Here it is again. If you don’t like that and it breaks your world view that the F-35 “costs too much” when in reality it’s cheaper than brand new 4.5 gen fighters, I don’t know what else to say but. Sorry?

They are two different jets. The F-35C have a bigger wing and sturdier landing gear.

Feels before reals huh?

The VTOL version didn’t’ add significantly to the development cost nor did it change the design. Why is this meme allowed to live?

100 million total. With engines and avionics. The f-22 can strike ground targets but that’s just for show. It’s not made to do so, and not nearly as effective as the F-35 is. That’s like saying “well the A-10 can carry sidewinders so it’s air superiority”.

VTOL fighters are required by the US Marines and the British…

This is not adding to your argument and is showing your ignorance of as to why the F-35 was ordered. The F-35B and F-35A are in the final stages of testing and the B model is already cleared for combat.

The F-22 is an air superiority fighter. The F-35 is a strike fighter. The F-22 wasn’t designed to hit ground targets,…

So this issue really only affects the F-35C which wasn’t expected to even go into service for another few years. This does not affect the vast majority of F-35s? Right? You probably should mention that in your article....

The F-35C and F-35B are basically two different jets. The problem is with the F-35C which does not affect the carrier you mentioned.

We didn’t.

The F-22 doesn’t do the same job the F-35 does.

All the most successful fighter planes in history were jack of all trades. The least successful have been the master of one. Please, learn some history as to why the JSF was developed in the first place.

Looks like a wagon Aurora.

Yeah fuck an all time low in automobile related deaths. Let’s go back to the good old days of unsafe vehicles!

What shit stain of a city/state is this? I’m sorry but if this was Seattle even the comcast idiots would at least acknowledge that there is a serious issue.

You can’t just keep using the same platforms for 100 years. Your innovation goes to zero if you do that.

I think 30+ years in between new designs isn’t a stretch.

Not really. Most new classes of ships have these types of problems. We just haven’t had a new class of destroyer in 30+ years.

3, unfortunately.

That’s not how these things work. You keep building and make adjustments, if you freeze construction it only costs you more money in the long run.