In order to have a “ground war” you need control of the air.

I kept going back and forth on my reply but kept hesitating because it all sounded very familiar. It looks like you pulled your points from articles like this. I’m sure its been covered here before

I wouldn’t worry to much about the F-35’s engine. Engines come and and go. The F-16 (another single engine plane) was originally introduced with the P&W F100-200. To put it bluntly it was junk. A few years later they replaced it with more reliable and more powerful engines.

My station car is a manual Camry. On top of that its probably the shittiest version (LE) shittiest generation Camry from the Shittiest year (2002) . I picked it up in 2008 with 35ishK on it car to take me back and forth to the train station. It’s function is to sit in the train station parking lot and have me not care…

Can you expand on that?

Okay, I see where you are coming from.

An F-35 and F-22 are will fly faster throughout the mission with a combat load (hence super cruise).

Yes. You’re right. Little fat kid can’t sustain supersonic as long as the other kids and has more of a supersonic dash capability.

It wasn’t designed to be an air superiority fighter but it has the weapons and systems capability to go on the offensive from an air to air perspective,

I definitely skimped out on a lot of stuff in my original post because “Beautiful Saturday morning rush posts trying to something something something....”

The F-35 will see continued development throughout it’s lifespan like all fighters. Just like the F-16 went from a simple airshow queen that was dead in any BVR fight to a multirole fighterbomber with lots of reach. Just like the F-15, originally a flawed superiority fighter with shit engines and plenty of issues is…

They were phased out but they brought them back

This could change if the Navy decides to step farther away from the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter and continue to buy squadrons of Super Hornets in the coming years.

here in suburban New York, it comes back to local politicians not being politically willing to tax homeowners even the smallest amount more to pay for the shit that...these same homeowners use on a daily basis.

Jalop here.

I used to think these were nice cars way back when they were still common and available at dealerships. I was in high school so I was easily impressed.

Southern State parkway is fine.