The US military’s F-35 Lightning II was going to change everything. A product of the Joint Strike Fighter program, which aimed to design a strike fighter that would satisfy the needs of the Air Force, Navy, and Marines, the F-35 would be revolutionary in its versatility, applicability, and a host of other -ilities too. And it was going to be really, really expensive. But worth it!
The F-35 and the Tradeoff Fallacy
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