.......your post is certainly appreciated...however, this is just a snippet of an article appearing on a technical web site that I am sure has no affiliation with any of the F-35”s competing airframes...this article appeared just this past February...it’s another point of view
....The US Air Force Quietly Admits the F-35 Is a Failure
By Joel Hruska on February 25, 2021 at 8:38 am
The Air Force has announced a new study into the tactical aviation requirements of future aircraft, dubbed TacAir. In the process of doing so, Air Force chief of staff General Charles Q. Brown finally admitted what’s been obvious for years: The F-35 program has failed to achieve its goals. There is, at this point, little reason to believe it will ever succeed.
According to Brown, the USAF doesn’t just need the NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance) fighter, a sixth-generation aircraft — it also needs a new, “5th-generation minus / 4.5th-generation aircraft.” Brown acknowledged some recent issues with the F-35 and suggested one potential solution was to fly the plane less often.
“I want to moderate how much we’re using those aircraft,” the general said. “You don’t drive your Ferrari to work every day, you only drive it on Sundays. This is our high end, we want to make sure we don’t use it all for the low-end fight… We don’t want to burn up capability now and wish we had it later.”
I saw that too. It’s called disinformation. I assume, from your name that you’re Russian. I would think Russians would be much more adept at recognizing disinformation.
Again, read articles and watch the videos of what its actual pilots say about it. The fact is though, that the US will not need as many F-35s as originally envisioned now that we have a 6th generation fighter aircraft almost ready to enter mass production.