Quote Originally Posted by MED View Post
The jack of all trades and master of none really applies to this thing. It is a multi-role strike fighter that doesn't do too much as well as the various aircraft it replaces; the most ridiculous being the replacement for the A-10. It really is ridiculous that the armed services plan to consolidate their operations on this aircraft platform.
Having some first hand experience with some of the tech inside the F-35, I definitely wouldn't say that it's the master of none. Sure, it isn't designed for strafing tanks, but flight and engagement software is leaps and bounds ahead of anything else out there. I think anyone that calls it a replacement for the Warthog is fooling themselves, but that doesn't mean that it isn't an incredibly capable aircraft.