HN weighing in on military stuff is always comedy to those of us who've been in the military. It's nobody's fault – this stuff can be baroque in its complexity – but it does make for some entertaining reading!

> There's a lot of armchair quarterbacking in these comments, this one taking the cake.

If one's government is going to spend billions and billions of your money, having some level of public satisfaction for its use isn't a bad thing to have. Or at least having a decision making program that people have confidence in.

The F-35 is a decent enough result, especially in comparison to what's going on with Canada's naval procurement program.