There's a nugget of truth in ALL the opinions voiced above. The F-35 may prove to be the biggest, most expensive fiasco ever. It also may have been a pretty damn good airplane if it had not been nobbled by nickel and dime development by Congress. Because of its decades of slow development, it may be obsolete BEFORE it becomes operational.
And it is very true that the planes it is designed to replace genuinely do need to be replaced.
