F-35 Cancelled, then what ?

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Originally Posted by Maus92

“Achieving full combat capability with the Joint Strike Fighter is at substantial risk” of not occurring before development is supposed to end and realistic combat testing begins, he said of the F-35...."
Lockheed?s F-35 Still Falls Short, Pentagon?s Chief Tester Says - Bloomberg

Maus92, you want to talk about F-14 engines and development continuing well into that program having gone IOC? See also AWG-9 software versions A, B, C .... Every program has these problems. With the F-35, it galls me because everything about the darned thing is so expensive, and there is so much in that software domain, but program-wise there is nothing new under the sun.


@Lyneham Lad: your bullet point 2. Yeah, ain't that the question?