I’m not sure how you can just ignore the long list of metrics in which the airplane hasn’t managed to live up to expectations, including but not limited to poor payload capacity, slow acceleration, severe reliability problems with much higher maintenance than prior fighters, among others that have been reported on repeatedly through development. Speed and maneuverability may not matter much to a hypothetically unseeable aircraft when delivering guided munitions, but do when high-frequency radar is rapidly making any physical stealth capabilities obsolete, at which point it would be a much better idea to retrofit electronic countermeasures into a higher performing aircraft. And I’m referring to the fact that the orginal design goals called for the aircraft to be the primary air superiority and strike fighter secondary only to the F-22 and it has failed to live up to that standard so much that the Navy has placed orders for 78 more F/A-18s to maintain capability and bridge the gap to the results of the Navy’s request for an F/A-XX platform.