30 May
2016
30 May
'16
4:04 a.m.
On 5/27/16 7:17 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
It hasn't
seen battle yet (and I hope it doesn't have to) but I'm a little
worried
about the fact that it's beaten (badly) in simulations and
exercises with
much older fighter aircraft with much more "primitive" tech, including
Russian aircraft, too.
Oh, just to add more, the F35 is not a "fighter" despite its
designation. It is an air superiority platform that is never supposed
to get into a dogfight. It is supposed to be in a network of planes,
and agressors will be shot down by missile from 50 miles away. The
F22 is supposed to be the dogfighter.
And it wasn't supposed to even be the F-35. It was a misstatement at the
announcement and should have been F-24.
alan