The F-117 was not technical overkill at all, it was technical underkill (if thats a word), it lacked the electronics to do anything useful.

F-117 and B-2 haven’t performed their role? Are you fucking retarded?

More of your “AF doesn’t want to CAS” silliness?

You mean a 5th generation VLO strike fighter can’t utterly buttfuck a (somewhat) reduced RCS 4th generation fighter?

“Overpriced”

It won’t death spiral.

Exactly, we don’t need B-21 RIGHT NOW.

>B-1 >Stealthy.

Um...do the math and read some (better) shit.

Ah, got it.

Go read the real report - The article is regurgitating what everyone else said. Apparently some people seriously expected an F-35 with a 35+ AOA limit AND a limited FLCS configuration to win against an F-16 with a 25 AOA limit. (I doubt those people were the AF or the F-35 program...)

Didn’t the RQ-170 use that?

If the program death spirals.

I want to believe thats an A-12... :(

Who says it has a BFM edge vs the F-35?

I’m imagining an F-35B with a rope pulling some crate or whatever in STOVL mode...lol.

1991...

Fair enough.

The A has 182 25mm rounds internally. B and C will have the pod with 220.

That’s why I’m arguing either all in or all out on the A-10!