You would recall the F-35B also uses technology that Lockheed Martin had obtained from Yakolev

BS

A great deal of misinformation has appeared on the Internet regarding the relationship of the Soviet Yak-41 (later Yak-141), NATO reporting name Freestyle, to the X-35 and the rest of the JSF program. The Pratt & Whitney 3BSD nozzle design predates the Russian work. In fact the 3BSD was tested with a real engine almost twenty years before the first flight of the Yak.

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=137

According to the UK Parliamentary docs, no “final” decision has been made on the version of the final 90. This is one of the reasons why they can’t give an absolute price since cost (both procurement and lifetime) goes up with the B over the A.

Beyond the first 48 F-35 ‘B’ variants in the 10-year Equipment Plan, analysis is under way to determine the choice of variant of the remaining 90 F-35s that meets both Combat Air and Carrier Strike requirements.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmdfence/845/845.pdf

https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/defence-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/inquiry/

Per the latest budget docs the FY2019 price is:
AIM-9X Blk2 = $474k
AIM-120D = $1.536 mil

This was exemplified in the recent exercise where 2 x F-35s shielded 4 x F-16s vs a force of 8 x F-16s. The Blue force F-16s were able to take out the Red while the F-35s provided SA, ESM support, and A2A cleanup.

While a lot of missions are conducted with the JOTT partners, the Dutch F-35s periodically fly with the 148th Fighter Squadron ‘Kickin’ Ass’, the RNLAF’s F-16 training unit in Tucson, Arizona, to evaluate and validate new tactics. ‘The 1st time we got to test all these advanced capabilities to their fullest potential was about a year ago, with and against our F-16s in Tucson,’ says Knight. ‘The initial scenario was that our two F-35s would escort a four-ship of F-16s across a notional border and protect them against another eight-ship of F-16s simulating a modern adversary. A relatively inexperienced flight leader was in charge of the F-16s on our side and Lt Col Joost ‘Niki’ Luijsterburg, the Tucson detachment commander, was responsible for the adversaries. Up to this point we had only practised these scenarios in the simulators and while we had a decent game-plan, we were all anxious to see how the F-35 would perform in real life. We figured that the F-35’s stealth would keep us out of harm’s way for most of the fight, but that we also need to protect the friendly F-16s, maximize the lethality of their missiles and get them to the target. To make this happen, we planned to initially use electronic attack against the adversary F-16s, see if we could avoid having them detect friendly fighters and datalink the location of the hostile aircraft to our F-16s. This way we could use the F-16s on our side to shoot down the initial wave of enemy fighters and keep our own missiles available once the ‘Blue Air’ F-16s had to focus on their target attack. The plan worked flawlessly. ‘In the debrief ‘Niki’ told us it was one of the most memorable sorties he had ever flown. Having previously worked in the F-35 program office he was elated to find out how effective the F-35 was, but at the same time he was frustrated by not getting a single shot off the rail against us, while getting killed multiple times. After that sortie it really hit us that the F-35 was going to make a big difference in how we operate fighters and other assets in the Royal Netherlands Air Force.’

It does not explain who wrote it, what sources did they use, how old the info is, or anything. How does an article “expire”?

It literally only says “Experienced pilot: “We won ten times by ten” which is completely meaningless because I guarantee that nobody associated with it has any non-public info about the F-35.

I checked the Archive.org site and it has not changed since it first appeared in Feb of 2018. It looks to be some sort of click-bait page to get you to subscribe to the site. I tried to signup, but it wants money.. So no.

Your attitude shows clearly the Golden Rule of ABJ: Any anti-JSF news is gospel and any pro-JSF info is lies & propaganda.

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