What I'm most curious about when it comes to the F-35 is: How will this design succeed in going against one of the axioms of aircraft design: You can not have one design to master all tasks ahead.
Did they make several designs for different variants to fullfill different roles? Will each variant come at a premium price? Will their customers need to buy multiple variants? Did they really manage to prove the aforementioned axiom wrong and create a jack of all trade? Or is it a design that will do some roles better than others and some roles poorer than competing designs?
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