> The F-35 is intended to be in service for decades longer than the Air Force is expecting to have human pilots in combat roles. One of the reasons the F-35 has had such a complex production history is that it's designed to be both the last fighter platform flown by humans and the first flown by AI.

One of many, many ways that the F-35s cost and development timeline has been blown up by trying to do too many different and incompatible, or at least non-complementary, things with one platform.

As lots of critics were pointing out as a problem with the project from the beginning.