Not gonna happen. Not in my lifetime. Japan has almost nothing to gain and any gains by China would be completely offset by the problems it would create. The Chinese like money. They aren’t gonna get into a fight just to shoot themselves in the foot. Sanctions would be so damning it would set China back generations.

Im surprised they went full 3-D thrust vectoring. The general consensus is that 2-D, like what’s on the Raptor, is the way to go. Adding that 3rd dimension creates a yawing effect, and takes maneuvers that will already rob energy, and makes them worse while the benefits are very minimal.

He’s a lockheed shill for pointing out things that are 100% factual? You’re a knob.

They are absolutely bad for an aircraft’s RCS.

The F-35 is nowhere near as bad as people want to make it out to be. In fact it’s really good. The F-22 is the better air superiority fighter, but that’s it. F-22 numbers would be a far bigger issue if the F-35 couldn’t protect itself, but that’s not the case. While air-to-air missions might not be it’s bread and…

He always claims that but there is absolutely nothing to support that opinion. There will always be a need, in some capacity, to have a man in the cockpit. Saying that we’ll completely progress past that in the next 15 years (ballpark figure for a 6th gen airframe) is 100% erroneous.

Nope, I think you’re dead right. Strangely, the more familiar people are with the aircraft, the more they like. The more ignorant they are, the more vitriol they spew. The F-35 takes a pounding because it’s procurement/teething process have been a nightmare, not because the aircraft is flawed.

If you say so. That’s assuming that we all die if Trump is elected. He’s a shitbag but I don’t think he’s the antichrist. The meme is just dumb. See pictures of someone drinking. Use the meme. A video of someone speeding. Use the meme. A story about migratory bird patterns flying 2 ft higher than usual. Use the meme.…

This meme for this story? Seriously. Enough of this meme. Especially when you’re really reaching.

CCIP and CCRP vary significantly as will their CEP. Of course different munitions will behave differently as well.

In all fairness, the theatre siege and Beslan were a nightmare. In both circumstances the baddies pretty much stacked the deck guaranteeing one of two things would happen. Complete capitulation or a massacre. No state would capitulated, much less the Russians.

He’s talking shit, as usual. Those 37mm guns are massive on an airframe that was already far below the performance standard at the beginning of the war. So much so that the big cannon Stukas didn’t generally carry bombs. Theyd carry two fuel tanks and rely on the guns for everything. That was deemed more efficient…

Rofl really?

Those Iraqi soldiers were given a new lease on life by the only people that could have. Other soldiers. Like you said, they survived a ridiculous pummeling from the air and their ride home was trashed. You add those two factors to the third factor that they were just dumb joe’s trying to dodge an axe. That’s all they…

Sorry guy.

They’re banking on the fact they wont have to build another aircraft for air supremacy any sooner than they would have had to if they build 1000 F-22s.

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Did you deserve it? Based on your whiny need for internet justice i’m guessing probably so.

FA has only been around for a few years. Tyler will love to know you are appreciating it though I’m sure.

Im sure he does. I think anyone that served in Vietnam and didn’t get PTSD would be in the absolute minority.