So over the weekend, I saw a piece floating around on Eurasia Times claiming the U.S. Marine Corps' F-35B, yes, the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) variant, was based on "stolen" Soviet Yak-141 technology. That’s right, folks. The conspiracy theory is back: the U.S. couldn’t figure out how to make a jet hover, so we cracked open a bottle of your favorite Russian beverage, reverse-engineered a Cold War prototype, and voilà, America’s most advanced 5th-gen fighter was born.