The F-35 was designed to do the job the F119 stealth fighter did - only any time , any place, any weather.
The F-119 was our silver bullet but it could barely maneuver, was pretty much defenseless, and could operate at night - preferably in pitch dark.
Our militarily success for the last 30 years was contingent upon the F-119 taking out enemy air defense , command and control, leadership and other high value targets.
The F-119 is the main reason we ran through Iraq twice and quite a few other operations and their stealth and precision weaponry pretty much destroyed our opponents ability to effectively fight back and won the war in the first 5 minutes of action.
Our losses would have serious if not for the F-119.
The F-35 is a supersonic ground attack plane with stealth and countermeasures that the F-119 could never even dream of and it is at rough parity with the most agile fighter out there - the F-16.
The only place the F-35 is at a disadvantage to the F-16 is in a one on one dogfight and it's a close thing even then.
More significantly, the close in one on one is just about the only chance an F-16 has to kill an F-35 with any currently existing weapons - a point few take into consideration.
An F-35 can kill just about anything out there before the enemy even knows it's at threat, much less under attack.
The primary limitation of the F-35 is it's short combat radius without aerial resupply of fuel. It s big one that will haunt he F-35 throughout it's service life.
The could ever replace the F-22 and it was never even intended to be a fighter at all.
It was intended to be a radically upgraded F-119 produced in large numbers (we never had more than 50 F-119) that could fight it's way onto and out of a target with minimal disadvantage to a dedicated air superiority fighter.
I assume you mean the F-117.
It will be several years before it is fully combat capable, and will be inferior to ANY 4 or 5 gen aircraft in air-to-air, and terrible bang for the buck in other tasks.
Imagine your son or grandson in a foxhole, needing air support....would you want this POS watching over him, or an A-10...or an F-16....or a spad....or a Piper Cub armed with 12 Ga buckshot.
My guess would be you’re a Boeing employee or just drinking the koolaid.
The aircraft performs poorly period in every aspect it was designed for. Read some of the test pilots comments “after they left the program”. When their on the program everything is rose colored glasses.
It’s way behind schedule and has been plagued with major problems.