Originally Posted by KenV
It happens because the contract requirements that the manufacturer designed and built the aircraft to were flawed and did not meet real world operational needs. If that is true of the F-35 (a big IF at this point), there's a lot of nations to blame for providing flawed requirements.
Ken, pardon my ignorance if I have misunderstood your quote but, are you actually saying that the reason the F-35 is so flawed, is actually down to the customer/'s who issued the contract and specs, rather than LM for failing to meet them, or saying they couldn't actually be met?
-RP