The F-15X would be a far more cost effective fighter. With the current upgrades it still dominates any known opponent. The bottom line is, it's not stealthy and therefore it's not pretty anymore to the Perfumed Princes at Air Force Systems Command at Wright-Patt.
The F-35 has the stench of McNamara's ghost all over it. It will take at least two more generations of fighter development before the engineers achieve a one size fits all solution.
Your theory is within the realm of plausibility.
My sense is that there is fuckery of some sort written into Boeing fly by wire software with ChiCom fingerprints all over it. The crashes with seemingly common causality would be an expensive use of assets for a PsyOp. It's far more likely these crashes will expose fuckery, rather than facilitate it. For what it's worth.
Mad Maxi's Resting Bitch Face Syndrome is getting progressively worse.
I lay awake at night dreaming of a bald eagle swooping down on her at a Town Hall meeting and snatching that nappy ass wig off her head as "Proud to be an American" plays in the background.
You can divine who's White Hat or PNG and who's Black Hat or connected from those postings.
3, probably Field Grade officers assigned to British Overseas Atlantic Territory? That's Falkland Islands kekekekekekek!
3, probably Field Grade officers assigned to Fiji? Many blowjobs would have to be given to get a posh posting like that. There's a gold mine of info if you could get the names that match the posts.
JUDGE34 could be a signal that someone in OKC could be fucked.