Tested in service is what I meant, alloycowboy.

As for the cost of an F-35, you can skew it anyway you like. If you believe the CEO of company making them, the basic cost will be about $85 million per airframe. But that's just a part of the equation. The F-35 is an expensive airplane to operate: about $42,000 an hour. A Super Hornet costs less than half that amount to operate, and $30 million less to buy.

It's a hyper-expensive military toy that if capable of operating in a hypothetical theatre that exists no where on the planet, and probably never will.