[null and void]

Lethal, Survivable, Supportable, and Affordable?

ALASS it's really Almost Lethal, Affordable, Survivable, and Supportable...

[buccaneer81]

“Lethal, Survivable, Supportable, and Affordable” like what it says on the patch?

We are in a world of hurt when the military or a contractor puts "affordable" on a mission patch.

[rbg81]

Watch Congress cancel the F-35 too, leaving us with no new fighters in any significant quantities. I find it funny that they are just now figuring out that canceling the F-22 will raise costs on the F-35.

[US Navy Vet]

F-35 = Overpriced JUNK! I would like to see it stacked against an updated, tricked out version of my beloved F-14.

[TLI]

Only 17 percent of the test evaluation of the F-35 will involve flight test discovery. The rest will depend on a variety of studies and analysis in order to qualify the design.

"Good Looking On Paper!"

[GBA]

When engineers and politicians try to create something that's all things to all people they rarely succeed in doing much more than spending a lot of money.

The F-35 might be a decent or even a great bomb hauler. It might be a much better AV-8B than the current AV-8B. It might be as good a dog fighter as the F-16A was or better multipurpose system than the F-16C/D. It might be a lot of things, even a huge disappointment, but we don't know what it is or what it might mature into right now. We are still in the learning/development stage.

One thing is certain...it's a LOT better looking that that gawdawful, fugly thing Boeing built.