I understand that and completely agree.

Generalizations ftw.

lol wut.

Exactly!

Or you can send them a B-21 loaded with cruise missiles...

Manned platforms + datalinks + RPVs = Win

Hell yeah!

Keep throwing that “hurr durr third world” shit, bro.

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?