F-35 - The Ultimate Doorstop?

Maybe they can put this into one of those pricey Abercrombie and Fitch Christmas time sales that make the news for extravagantly expensive gifts.  The inescapable fact is that ten-plus years into the project, the Pentagon continues to pour billions into a "warplane" that at this point apparently only taxis reliably, and that might be a dubious claim!

The article referenced in this earlier post has been updated to reflect the fact that Air Force test pilots in recent (very limited because of the plane's shortcomings) test flights don't like the plane very much.  For one thing the radar doesn't work a lot of the time, and the systems are difficult to use and operate.  For $120 $162.5 million a copy one might reasonably expect that the pilot could actually see out of the cockpit...but no!!! 

Oh, and it averaged about four hours of flight time even in the constrained tests they were forced to use --- before a 'critical failure' occurred.  

I can just hear the upcoming discussion now.... "But the manufacturer's warranty doesn't actually cover any unusual activities like actually FLYING!".