Stopped reading soon as they cited CNN, Look at the bottom of the "About Us" section on who they associate with.

I mean the Airforce has apparently already built and flew the prototype for the F-35s replacement. Not that they said much more then that.

The F-35 also fell short of preforming how it was marketed. It was Marketed as excelling at ground attack, strategic bombing, and as a Fighter. Reality was it at best was average in those roles.

That would be the smartest move. F-35 and LCS were money pits for Billions of dollars in the Hope's of achieving capabilities that were easily viewable as unobtained years ago. We waste time and capital poorly developing capabilities that aren't necessary instead of fielding a kill chains and weapons to better connect our force for awareness, targeting, and long range strike. Our "peer adversaries" have newer tech platforms but we are locked in to bad decisions