Declassified Pentagon F-35 Study Details Reliability, Security Woes

Yet despite these problems, the F-35 remains the most commercially successful airframe in the world, with over 670 sold, and 2,500 on order from US-allied countries all over the world. What could explain this sales pipeline, if the F-35 was the boondoggle this article implies it to be?

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Elon Musk recently made some remarks about F-35 on Twitter: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1860574377013838033" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;elonmusk&#x2F;status&#x2F;1860574377013838033</a><p>It&#x27;s exactly what I was thinking about: Having a pilot onboard is overhead and its a limiting factor for the flight envelope as you have to keep it alive. Besides, it&#x27;s not invisible despite calling it that. It&#x27;s visible in the visible spectrum and hearable in the human hearing range, which means that you can build detection and tracking systems in those wavelengths instead of pretending that its invisible because its hard to detect at radar wavelengths.<p>Why just not drop any manned vehicles and go for the remote control + AI? What is the logic? Sunken cost fallacy? Military industrial complex needs it?<p>The only thing I can think of is the political implications of downing plane with a soldier on board.