It's the norm for any new generation fighter, but the F-35 is easily the most complex platform ever developed. Debugging the F-22 took over a decade, and there

It's the norm for any new generation fighter, but the F-35 is easily the most complex platform ever developed. Debugging the F-22 took over a decade, and there's still intermittent problems. That was a platform started in 1981 and tested in 1997. The F-35 by virtue of having reinvented everything from the helmet to the engine is in for a lot more trouble. It started in 1992 and had a first flight in 2006, ten years after the F-22's first. If the F-22 is any benchmark the F-35 has another decade of trouble, possibly more.