Question is, can you prove that?

‘Are’ is the same as ‘Were’, now?

It’d be like Raven III or something...That name is overused as all fuck.

But CAS obviously means you get close to the ground, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight?

I was under the impression that you said the F-35 can’t do those things...No?

Gotta heat up all the RAM, yo!

Nice assumptions ya got there! ;)

What does the A-10 do, then?

Bullshit, its got a lot of gas, a lot of sensors, and the same weapons.

Agreed, its fucked, man!

That makes sense though; you can’t do that here!

So what do you want to do? Shitcan the F-35 and reset the cycle of buttfuckery?

On the F-35? The internal one works, not sure about the podded one, but that one isn’t very important.

$200 million.

What plane are you referring to?

So you said you wanted CAS, eh?

Kill yourself.

You sure you’re not thinking Foxhound?

IIRC you need some speed for those to work right.

That’s how those 4.9 and 5 gen fighters are; it takes a good 20 years from the start to FOC.