Arguably it works well enough for the Rafale. But it is an older plane with less specifications constraints, designed mainly for a single small country, and sti

Arguably it works well enough for the Rafale. But it is an older plane with less specifications constraints, designed mainly for a single small country, and still the development up-to real usability took an insane amount of time (first prototype flight in 1986, really operational since a few years according to former pilots, and still missing some capabilities of former platforms in some roles). Right now the F-35 is simply not ready, but I'm not sure anybody seriously expected it to be? Comparing the timescales, we should check again in 15 years, or if it goes really fast maybe at least 5? Now specifically the software dev history of the F-35 is an interesting story..