I'd guess you got downvoted for a number of reasons. People do dislike the program. The F-35 has been hyped and sold as a good dogfighting aircraft. That dogfig

I'd guess you got downvoted for a number of reasons. People do dislike the program. The F-35 has been hyped and sold as a good dogfighting aircraft. That dogfights are now obsolete and replaced by missiles is the exact claim made before Vietnam, and is going to push some buttons. Also, there's no real-world evidence that its true. And as earlier comments indicate, if close-combat agility is completely unnecessary, then the whole F-35 program has proceeded from really flawed presumptions and needs to be re-thought.