F-35 Cancelled, then what ?

[kbrockman]

That's the beauty of promisses, you can make up pretty much any number.
After a couple of years of operational use , the trueth comes out .
All of the US stealth programs have missed the promissed numbers by a very wide margin up until today.

Knowing the level of complexity and the issues that exist up until today, the F35 is following pretty much the same route.
There is a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin;
Only a fool does the same thing and expects different results.
That pretty much sums it up for the F35.

Edit;
I'm using the numbers provided by the USAF,
they basically use 2 numbers: Operational CPFH and Ownership CPFH, for aircraft in full operational use in sufficient numbers, there is only a small difference between these 2 numbers.
ex;
-F16C 22,315 Operational CPFH
-F16C 22,514 Ownership CPFH