> The F-35 is going to end up being a good aircraft and will fulfill what it was designed to do.
Before it's outclassed by something that didn't take so many decades to get to the field in usable form?
Before it's outclassed by something that didn't take so many decades to get to the field in usable form?
What other modern plane development programs don't actually take decades?
Include Boeing and Airbus planes into that too. Include helicopters. All of it is a time consuming and expensive thing to do. We are not riveting metal together and putting piston engines in fighters anymore.
I have high confidence that the Russians will manage to eventually make a 5th gen fighter using a legacy of nearly 50 years of development. But no, the JSF program is the one that is heavily delayed.