LOL Thank you for sharing that. Airpower Australia. Oh dear me. F-111 is way better than the Typhoon! Who would want a typhoon when you have an Su-34?

Yup. Same old Same old.

Thats the same idea that the Soviets had. Its not anything new. Its hard for China or Russia to make it work, because they need to overwhelm the US and its allies and they simply don’t have the number of aircraft needed to do that

“It’s great to see someone directly involved in the program talk truthfully about it without all the corporate propaganda talk.”

Please point in the wiki you linked where it says:

thats about what you get out of everything else...

Well said. Even Harry Hilliker said he would have designed the F-16 differently when he saw what it evolved into, to better suit its used role

I’d be curious to find out how our peers are near. You may want to look at the sheer amount of US firepower, the budget, and then superior training from Fort Irwin to Redflag. Most Chinese Flanker pilots are from more prestigous families and barely get any stick time. This is before we get into Russia’s sputtering…

Those F-15 pilots must have amazing visual acuity for all those kills they got then.

Tyler you don’t see that the F-35 and F-22 will be working together even on deep strike? With the ZOMG superiority of the F-22 there is no reason it can’t go anywhere an F-35 does.

The best marketing is combat success, so yes in that way its marketing.

The ROE hasn’t prevented BVR engagements since 1991. You might be refering to the Iran games in the 1980s, where obviously not being in an active shooting war, visual escort is preferred.

When was 1 trillion spent? 1 trillion is over the next 55 years for 2443 fighters and 40 percent of that is inflation. what is the future like? How is 2065?

They are nuts, and if you noticed Kopp hasn’t come out to gloat about being right. They wanted to keep around F-111s which were costly , delayed and initial low performers, the prefered the F-22 which was, costly delayed, and had low initial performance.

Although the F-35 has had delays and deserves a blame for that, the Canadians have completely bungled their CF-18 replacement procurement, and politics caused further delay to the point where it was decided to continue to forego F-35s, and instead upgrade the CF-18s. Canadian politicians are kicking the can down the…

Sorry M8. I don’t hold Aussies accountable for those few lone nuts, and Eric Palmer is an American Ex Pat, so not your fault

Why link to David Axe’s Poorly headlined article at all then? Please own what you imply

As soon as the F-35 gets past its development phase it will be the most advanced software/computer driven warplane out there, so Gizmodo will find a way to kiss and make up I’m sure.

if an F-35 crashed into a house the internet would be apocalyptic, Harriers are crashing into houses (and everywhere else) routinely. As for the 4 for a price of 1, the F-35B does a helluva lot more, and is much easier to fly. It takes far longer to train an Av-8 pilot than an F-35B. The magic of computers! and the…