After 21 years of development and trouble shooting it is obsolete befoe it is completed.
Somebody needs to just kill this POS. Too big to fail is a poor excuse for outrigh failure. Anybody that points to Lockheed as having retained their prowess as an aircraft builder needs to rethink their claims. Lockheed has milked the treasury for all it can and it is time to stop them.
This thing is a poster child of a failed project.
“To big to fail” means “to many people on the gravy train to keep it going”.
Someone needs to teach the Defense department project management skills. Kill it if it needs to be killed, and move on.
The Russians are fielding tanks, helicopters, and fighters two or even more generations ahead of what we have, and the money keeps going into a fighter than is pretty hard on the pilots.