The F-35 has the ability to share all the info its sensors can gather, along with its own flight info (location, course, weapons load, etc) with several other F-35s directly, so that the pilots can share tasks and work together without the need for a central controller. One F-35 can provide full sensor data directly to the others in a manner that acts as if their sensors were providing the info. Therefore several F-35s can attack a group of enemy aircraft or other targets with only one using its sensors, but with each pilot "seeing" all the data directly, and making his own decisions based on that.