As a purpose-built strike fighter, it likely has no equal on the planet...and that's before the Israelis have had a chance to mess with it.
It features a HUGE engine, LOTS of internal space, impressive combat radius, very POWERFUL integrated computing systems and a stealthy, and rather sexy I think, body built for business and the pleasure of its pilots and maintainers!
What's not to like?
Adding to that its mission flexibility of being able to load it up internally or externally and you have a very capable fighting machine that makes mission planners happy, too.
No wonder the propagandists who loathe the military and do their best to undermine our forces hate it so much.
Their only way to stop it has been to make it expensive and unpopular via the bureaucrazy bureaucracy and propaganda techniques they've become infamous at using.
Unfortunately, that has worked well enough on the F-35 just as it has on all the rest of our military, which a quick inventory of assets and opinion will confirm.
It isn’t an F22.
I would like a bunch of F35s, a bunch of F22s, and a whole bunch of new A10s (rebuild the production lines).