Shills from Lockheed-Martin are desperate to keep selling warplanes to our "allies" in the "war" against "Russia, Russia, Russia".
The US Air Force Quietly Admits the F-35 Is a Failure
Air Force chief of staff General Charles Q. Brown finally admitted what's been obvious for years: The F-35 program has failed to achieve its goals. There is, at this point, little reason to believe it will ever succeed.
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
The DoD and Lockheed-Martin have spent years painting the F-35 as a flexible, multi-role aircraft capable of outperforming a range of older planes. The rhetoric worked. The DoD retired the F-22 Raptor, F/A-18 Hornet, and several jets in the Harrier family because the F-35 was in line to replace them. The Air Force fought to replace the beloved A-10 Warthog with the F-35 on the grounds that the latter was, somehow, a superior replacement.
The F-35: A Mystery, Inside an Enigma, Wrapped Up in a Shit Show
At this point, it's obvious that the F-35 is a problem child. There have been so many problems with the aircraft, it's difficult even to summarize them. Pilot blackouts, premature part failures, software development disasters, and more have all figured in various documents over the years. Firing the main gun can crack the plane. The Air Force has already moved to buy new F-15EX aircraft. Multiple partner nations that once promised F-35 buys have shifted orders to other planes. The USAF continues to insist it will purchase 1,763 aircraft, but the odds of it doing so are increasingly dubious. The F-15EX costs an estimated $20,000 per hour to fly. The F-35 runs $44,000. Lockheed-Martin has promised to bring that cost down to $25,000, but it's been promising that for years.
https://www.extremetech.com/defense/320295-the-us-air-force-quietly-admits-the-f-35-is-a-failure