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You'd need more time than that. F-35 manufacturing didn't really start churning out the product until 2018. And the aircraft was limited to maneuverability that rivaled a Piper Cub until around that same point. For most of its early life pre-block 3f the control law software was still being tested so they couldn't do any hard maneuvers.

That's also the era when those fake stories about "F-35 sucks can't turn" came out. Because even though urinalists can't even get information about AR-15s correct, everybody believed them when they write about the F-35 despite that knowledge being even *harder* to come by.