This all sounds like a colossally stupid idea, and I'm a bloody yankee.
Can we terminate everyone behind the ideas behind the F-35?
No, I don't mean terminate their employment, I mean line them up against a wall and shoot them for high treason in intentionally crippling the nation's warfighting ability to line their own pockets.
Let's have more Raptors. Or even Super Hornets. Hell, you know what we really need? A true successor to, or at least a fully-modernized refit of, the A-10 warthog. Chrysler on a crutch, Tomcats would be better than this clusterfucky circlewank, hangar queens that they were, at least when you needed them to FLY, they fucking flew! And as for jump-jets, you know what did that job just fine? Fucking Harriers.
Trying to get one plane to do the jobs of five just results in one exceedingly generic plane that is a jack of all trades, master of jack shit, and redonkulously overpriced.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
