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Very unlikely. Ideally you want your adversaries to be so afraid of how capable your new weapons system is that it acts as a strong deterrent.

Not only that, but a large component of the Joint Strike Fighter program was selling it to allied militaries. It would be silly to trash the aircraft publicly if you want a dozen other nations to buy it.

Most of it is fanboys or anti-fanboys.

You'd think people in software would be more familiar with having defects in your product not meaning doom or incompetence.

I hardly think the Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation counts as an "anti-fanboy". And their reviews of F-35 progress of been the bureaucratic equivalent of damning.

Full report here: https://www.dote.osd.mil/pub/reports/FY2018/pdf/dod/2018f35j...

Article summarizing it here: https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/dote-delivers-ano...

If my product fucks up, someone can't buy something on the internet

If the F35 fucks up, people can die, international relations can be harmed, etc etc etc

The easiest way to defeat the aircraft is to cancel the program. I'd wager a lot of negative press the aircraft gets is pushed by adversaries who are scared to fight it.

Zero.