Agreed. Hell I could see a blackjack bomber in the sma gray zone just firing massive salvos of a2a missiles requiring manuvering that opens the f35 to other interceptors or drives into s300 and s400 systems to bracket it.

No one says it's isn't and not capable. What many says at a cost of overall fleet capablities and lost opportunity costs.

Yes but if they have you they have buddies too.

Yes but not that hot and heat management is a major issue. The f22 tackled it but was costly. Even though it’s a twin engine plane the lower thrust per engine actually helps with heat management. You aren’t concentrating the intensity of the heat in one area.

We should have at least 724 but that was continually revised downward. Even then we never should have stopped production below 360 planes.

Hard to punch a f22 pilot when there are so few of them. If we end up with the couple thousand f35 there are not enough f22s to provide air superiority.

It’s a result of the compromise in the design. Any design has trade offs to make especially given the airframe is developed for three separate planes.

Gen welsh are you serious. The man that has done more to destroy the AF and turn it into the Air Farce. Frankly, just using him as a mouth piece you lose the argument.

Yes someone remembers this is an attack plane not a fighter plane. That distinction went out the window when Schwartz and Gates killed the f22.

The f35 sees them from further but can’t engage them much further than legacy fighters. It slings the same missle and operates under the same ROE.

And high heat issues with it bomb bays.

Right now it's only sling gBU31 and GBU12s those aren't missle you sling but guided gravity bombs that need a flight profile to drop.

So when an adversary loads up the grey zone with interceptors and interdicts the F35 trying to sneak around s300 & s400 sites the pilots not going to have much of a choice.

Gen. James Mattis 2016

It’s true but they are setting things up for whenclintons 33,000 emails get dumps on wiki leaks.

In the early days it wa the NSA picking up the tapes from NYc where the international gateway pay was located fro AT&T long lines. As the networks developed to what they are today they no longer needed the old record becuase they are all traveling over the networks.

We have two running and Putin still has his bag Mann to hold over the Clintons. Why did you think she pushed the rest after Russia invade Georgia. Instead of standing up for a sovereign nation she rolled over for Putin because of all the shady deals that came out of the “democratization of the Russian Federation” that…

Well said but I would ad in how duplicities the media is in covering up for the establishment time and time again. Hell, it’s not just their covering up and supporting the taking points to deflect from the emails but how much of a lap dog the media is. You can read the emails how they fawned over the establishment…

I love Tyler and his writing to top notch but the new site has teething problems. The comment section is a mess. This is first time in a awhile I have checked in on FA and will say at least the web page and comment sections work.

How is t it a love for the DNC. You are enabling their deception and deflecting from the actual issues. Those email are frankly disturbing how blantently they undermined the voters in the party.