Gilmore also notes that the prognostic and health monitoring system, currently, is unable to provide timely detection of combat damage to the F-35B lift-fan system, which “might fail catastrophically before the pilot can react” during transition to vertical landing. Lockheed Martin comments that “in the remote chance of a failure, the pilot would auto-eject.”
So the problem is a system, that can't detect "combat damage" right now, for an aircraft we are always being reminded is years away from a battlefield, for a liftfan which MIGHT fail "before the pilot can react," and yet if it did, there is an auto ejection system in place already? Whats wrong?