A quote from the article calls the f-35 a Ferrari

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From the article:

The F-35 is a Ferrari, Brown told reporters last Wednesday. “You don’t drive your Ferrari to work every day, you only drive it on Sundays. This is our ‘high end’ [fighter], we want to make sure we don’t use it all for the low-end fight.”

They should go with the Porsche of aircraft. They’re half the price of the Ferrari, just about as capable on the track, and absolutely reliable and civil enough to daily drive year round in any conditions.

Instead of pushing envelope to the limits of technology, build something that is 95% of the current limits an save tremendously and have something reliable, like a Porsche.