KenV & a1bill (et al?)
Perhaps you should brace yourselves before reading on.
I have never stated nor remotely suggested that the F-35 program was without problems. Some of them severe. I have gone on record as suggesting that many of the F-35's detractors have turned their hobby (and for some their profession) into well nigh on a religion. Anyone that questions the orthodoxy of that religion is to be suppressed by any and all means.