Originally Posted by JG73

F-35 is as cheap because the development profitates from the F-22 program. Some technologies are equal. And because there are a few thousand that will be produced.
Whether it's better or not isn't possible to say because it needs 10 more years untill it goes in full service.
Eurofighter is not such a crap like the american industries wants to suggest to the world.
Also you should be very sceptical to american documentations about their aircrafts because they are mostly produced or sponsored by the companies who produce them. Thats a big difference between america and europe. In America things like fighter jets are hiped up to the sky and in europe (and especially Germany) they are devil's work. "Der Spiegel" a big magazine in Germany for example wrote that EF2000 wouldn't be able to fly in winter what's totally bulls.hit. The truth was that EADS waited for temperatures that where cold enough to test it somewhere in Sweden but it has been to warm there in the year before. Now it has been tested and of course it was able to fly with out any problems. But that was concealed by "Der Spiegel".