The U.S. Air Force’s chief of staff wants the service to develop an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of aging F-16s and complement a small fleet of sophisticated F-35 stealth fighters. But an affordable, lightweight fighter is exactly what the F-35 was first conceived to be.
I love the F-35 because Western rivet-counting military types get so salty when you point out that their expensive new toy has fallen out of the sky multiple times now.
It's the decapitations for me.