[Secret Agent Man]

twice the range - is that comparing internal fuel tanks?

1.5 the payload - if its external, stealth goes way down.

[Mariner]

All Internal.

[Yo-Yo]

1.5 the payload - if its external, stealth goes way down.

The F-35 was never designed to be all stealth all the time. It was intended to be stealthy during 'first day of war' then become a non-stealthy bomb truck in subsequent days and weeks of a conflict.