On the other hand, this is the second positive article on this plane to hit the top of hacker news in 3 days [1]. A trillion dollar plane that is notorious for costing way too much probably has a pretty decent marketing budget behind it, and it's not very difficult to assume that these articles are part of that somehow.
For an article that came out before this recent press rollout began, try this one: "The F-35 Is a $1.4T National Disaster"
article: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-f-35-14-trill...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16869679