Bangladesh, July 26 -- The vaunted Lockheed Martin F-35 “Lightning II — a jet so “advanced” it requires a small army of technicians to keep it airborne — has added yet another “success” to its bloated resume. Nearly 40 days after it found itself stranded in India, where it was forced to land due to a slight breeze over the Indian Ocean, the British Air Force (RAF) F-35B finally left for Australia.

Engineers, who had to be flown all the way from the United Kingdom, wasted nearly a month and a half struggling to repair the troubled jet. After being stranded at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport in the southern state of Kerala, the $100 million aircraft is now in Australias Darwin.

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