content: Truth. The F-35 is a next-gen fighter designed to fly into next-next-gen. The whole airframe is designed to be capable of maneuvers far beyond that which a human pilot can tolerate, because it was designed with the understanding that human pilots won't be flying them later in their careers. The designers looked back at airframes like the F-15, which is still reliably in service around the world with upgrades that never could have been foreseen, and tried to predict the direction of airframe development over the next quarter-century and beyond. That's fucking amazing, no matter how you spin it.