ORAC, in my opinion, you've just perfectly described the F-22 rather than the F-35. The per-airframe expense, though arguably worth it for the exceptional capability it brings in the Air Dominance role, is much more than the metric that F-35 has ever had in mind. During this period of concurrency it is genuinely difficult to predict where sustainment cost and per-airframe cost for F-35 will end up. I personally predict it to be above what is hoped to bottom out at, simply because that is what always happens for pretty much every aircraft program. I'm not talking about Total Program cost here because the delays and all have blown that figure way out of the water.