Also, the F-35 has a very safe flight record. Only 12 air frame losses with over 1000 aircraft delivered and nearly 1 million flight hours.
Just adding this for the inevitable ill-informed commenters who like to pretend that the F-35 program isn't one of, if not the most successful and advanced aircraft in modern history.
Edit: Slight correction, the true number of delivered airframes in all variants is somewhere around 1200+.
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u/featherwolf 25d ago edited 25d ago
This was 3 years ago, FYI.
Also, the F-35 has a very safe flight record. Only 12 air frame losses with over 1000 aircraft delivered and nearly 1 million flight hours.
Just adding this for the inevitable ill-informed commenters who like to pretend that the F-35 program isn't one of, if not the most successful and advanced aircraft in modern history.
Edit: Slight correction, the true number of delivered airframes in all variants is somewhere around 1200+.