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Total cost due to avionics issues and other construction failures.

And failure to meet project requirements.

e.g. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/f-35-failure/

Has there ever been a modern fighter jet built in the last 50 years that wasn't consider in one aspect or another an "failure"? At this point, the term "failure" seems almost pointless to describe very large, nation state projects that are heavily used and have thousands built.

Whether the F35 was a failure depends on whether you are looking out your forward window, or rear view mirror, and when you were looking.

The F35 program certainly seemed like a white elephant, until it crossed the threshold into production and wasn’t. It was a massively delayed cost blowout project, which has turned into a huge success.

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