what to do?
it is a tricky situation indeed.
scrap the F-35
with the lessons learned, build a new one,
-use the good, working parts of it, the basic design philosophy.
-drop the extra goodies the gimmicks...
-make it large enough to have legs, two engines, two Guys.
-land and take off from a carrier, and operate for lengths of time overseas.
if THAT machine works, hand it to the USAF to make a singleseater fighterversion of it.
make a copy for the marines, so they get the same tool as the navy and can operate alongside one another in perfect synch
use the F-35 as a testbed and for experiments. get the most out of the wasted dollars.
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