I would set about building newer airframes of our 4th Generation aircraft for the time being.
i liked them, but they’ve just taken way to long with the program it’s now outdated.
i’ve watched the series where boeing and lockheed battled for the contract. i believe they gave it to lockheed to keep them employed. if boeing would have had their new front end on their plane and had testing done they would have had no excuse to let lockheed win.
the problem is that the winner of the contract was based on the vtol version. not the regular version. trying to do too much with one plane.
China hacked our 50 TB plans and built a plane with two engines and lots of fuel and armament capacity.