
BTW to those of you that don't like the F-35, ask yourselfs this, if someone was to offer you to fly one would you refuse?
For fun, yea I'd fly it. In combat, I'd rather take my trusty F-15E. F-35 is going to turn into a fine light attack fighter, but that's all it will ever be. It's a front-aspect stealthy F-16 with newer gadgets, and trying to make it do everything is part of what is driving up costs. A small fighter that you're going to build thousands of should probably cost a bit less, IMHO.
The pictures are pretty cool though

I still want to see a 2-seat strike version of the F-22. If they placed rigorous limits on the design requirements, they could probably do it at a reasonable cost while improving reliability. Start from some realistic requirements and re-use tech proven in the F-22 and F-35, and then they'd have a real F-15 replacement. Just don't add ANYTHING that has to be developed from scratch. Again, IMHO. Will we do it? Doubtful, unless we get into a real shooting war and realize we really do need a deep strike fighter. Again.