Agreed Captain. The F-35 is far from completed though. Costs continue to spiral. And it is supposed to do many very impressive things "on paper" but until the software is sorted out it is a bit of an unknown:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8EU8C420120330
Problems abound:
http://defense.aol.com/2011/12/13/la...k-look-review/
Meanwhile the Pentagon has been shifting performance requirements downwards:
http://insidedefense.com/20120301239...nu-id-926.html
As for the Chinese, they appear to be well informed:
http://www.terminalx.org/2012/03/sec...na-hacked.html