The F-35 is doing excellently at it's actual engineered purpose, which is to extract the maximum amount of money from the DoD and into the hands of contractors

The F-35 is doing excellently at it's actual engineered purpose, which is to extract the maximum amount of money from the DoD and into the hands of contractors while at the same time being completely unassailable politically. Better than digging ditches and filling them back in, I suppose.