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It would be quite nice to know what is real as regards the F35.
DOT&E chief, Michael Gilmore says that the aircraft is not on a good pathway to achieve what it was meant to, the software is late etc etc, other papers say that an F35 with Software version 2B or 3I needs many other assets to enable it to do its job. Whilst Major Morten “Dolby” Hanche seems to say that the 3I plane that he is using with the USAF is the best thing since sliced bread.
Obviously if the 3I F35 is so good, once the flight restrictions are taken off the plane with a full 3F software load and all the developmental steps needed for full release to the USAF and international customers having been achieved, it would seem that a new (5th?) generation of superlatives will be needed...
I am assuming that the truth is somewhere between "It is in a death spiral" and "It is the best thing since sliced bread" it would just be nice to know where on the continuum it is.