it doesn't seem to have moved the program any closer to being cancelled.
Perhaps its momentum has reached that critical value where nobody could stop it even if they tried.
I think the cancellation point is well past, with over a 100 now off the line. Remember this thread title started 4 years ago, when the entire program was much more in doubt, but has become the all things F-35 thread. Perhaps a thread retitling is past due, but it seems we have gotten used to it on this forum.