Well we need these so-called partners so that's a good thing. It is limited to 1,000 pound bombs though.

Japan made the f-2 a f-16 derivative and it cost at least 220 million each versus... Lockheed who makes the f-16 and they sell them for about 90 million. So no Japanese defense spending is typically much more expensive to protect their industry.

This isn’t a plane it’s a mockup... Not even close to fly able let alone complete. Also the Japanese are notorious for under reporting defense spending.

Decompiling is something any modern state can do if they want. The 35 is far more secure and checks to make sure it's in the right plane and checks all parameters... Only Israel is allowed to mod the plane and this time they have to go through Lockheed to make changes.

And has a third of the range.

F-5s are murdererous in near visual range.. It's just to small.

The harrier vectoring was a trick that would not have held up. The mirages were on fumes against the British.

F120 was cancelled but research has continued and now looks to be actually build able soon... Could be great for the 35.

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It was bush and his boy gates who cancelled the raptor in 2007 it just took till 2009 to make the last ones. Suppliers had already shut down before Obama was inaugurated. The yf-22 was a flight demonstrator which is like a pretend plane... Of course there were changes but the same or more would have changed in the…

Not really there weren't any fighters it can't handle while on a bombing mission there. It's ability to gather Intel is its ace in the hole.

These guys as missiles trucks will work great with the new aim-120d. They can Cary 12 amramms plus two sidewinders.

We've almost always produced planes under concurrency... That's why A models have historically sucked and been upgraded within five years.

F-15/16 with f-135 would be sweet. F110 puts out 29,500 in AB, f135 puts out 28,000 in mil power... 42,000 in AB.

Efficiency may increase with more thrust but something some people don’t realize is that super cruise still uses way more gas than subsonic.

Only way you would want more thrust is if it was a byproduct off efficiency.

f135 is the same diameter but a foot and a half longer. Also it’s been tweaked for increased efficiency in the train sonic speed range vs f119 which is destined to super cruise.

I was referring to tailed fighters like Su-xx.

The 22 only uses TV for pitch trim control in level flight to allow the stabilizer and flight controls to be aligned for the lowest RCS possible.