"But the Russians only had the metal. They didn't have the logic. To keep a twenty-seven-ton supersonic jet stable in a hover, you need more than just a swivel nozzle. You need a god-level computer.
The F-thirty-five-B is essentially... a Flying MacBook. It runs on eight million lines of code. Every millisecond, the software calculates wind speed, weight distribution, and thrust output. It makes over five-hundred micro-adjustments... every... single... second.