Save a trillion? If you cancel the F-35 you still need to replace the aging fighters. The trillion dollar price tag was for 3k fighters, fuel, replacement parts and maintenance hours over the next 40 years.

The F-18Cs are the things that need to be replaced sooner than later. The F-35s are being delivered already. To cancel it is absurd. It’s already in service with 3 different countries with production lines in Italy, the USA and Japan now producing jets.

The F-35 is replacing both. The marines are accepting deliveries and training squadrons, it doesn’t happen overnight.

It’s like you have no understanding of air combat. The F-35 in stealth mode is better than any other jet at “dog fighting” except the F-22.

Once the threats are gone it can slap on hardpoints and carry more ordinance than an A-10.

Like the P-51/P-47/F4U/f-4/f-15/F/A-18, it’s a jack of all trades, master of none.

Key word: Internal.

it’s literally my saab 2008 93 wagon. Even the same engine.....

Foxtrot alpha is known to misrepresent the facts and has a hardon for the a-10.

“All three are currently limited to I believe 500 knots below 5000 feet because the skin temperatures were too high.”

This is a falsehood, please cite this claim.

Wait until they actually build a test airframe with datalink and see if they can fire missiles off an F-15 or AEGIS cruiser.

“All three are currently limited to I believe 500 knots below 5000 feet because the skin temperatures were too high.”

This is a falsehood.

What? No F-16s will be kept and the F-16 has virtually replaced the A-10 already.

You seem to be horribly misinformed.

The F-22 and F-35 have both been cleared for combat. Over 200 F-35s are in the field and not a single crash. An industry first in new aircraft development, the safest jet developed to date.

You are really buying into a ton of false reporting.

Do you get all your news from garbage sources?

Guns aren’t used anymore. Haven’t been used in a long time. Either way, it works. Helmet works fine, not sure why are you lying about that too.

How so? The A-10 has already been mostly replaced by the f-16.

The F-35 was never meant to replace the F/A-18 superhornet, it still isnt’ supposed to do. You should read up on the subject.

That’s not true. The F-35 is already in the field and all the issues are software, and the F/A-18 advanced nonsense will have the same sort of software issues. The only thing that is tried and true is the airframe and engine, which are not an issue with the F-35.

The F-35 isn’t one basket. You have the F-35, F/A-18 super hornet, F-15 and F-22.

85 million is with the engine included. It’s literally as cheap as a super hornet.