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The fact that the F-35 is to be VTOL capable mean there are no legitimate comparison to the F-22 in terms of design and manufacturing. To date, the only successful VTOL aircrafts are the Harrier and the Osprey and make that successfully DEPLOYED aircrafts. Plenty of experimental VTOL designs exists but for some reasons or another, none of them made it beyond the testing stage. Either they were designed to test a very specific idea about VTOL to see if that idea is practical or not. Or as a whole aircraft, the design was completely impractical. Nevertheless, we must explore anyway.since i'm amateur and layman. Can professionals tell me why USA is facing so many troubles in F-35 program when they have already built F22 raptor. Only thing challenging i thought was VTOL capability. Rest of all the capabilities should have been a piece of cake as most of the high tech and complex technology was already developed in F 22 designing and development phase and could be borrowed to F-35 program?
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I alWays thought that the F-35 will be more of an injection(Flying boom) refuler rather than a probe-and-drouge one. Very interesting if I do say so myself.