they should cancel the pig and buy SU35s, probably can get them for a good price. the navy went for 2 seaters and got a pig, the F4, and kept the great F8 around for fighter escort, a truly classic design. they bought F18s to replace the Ao6, A7s, and the f18 can do neither role.
the F111, even in the F model never came close to meeting range and perf goals. they loaded up anF111 with4 multi ejector racks of iron bombs, and said it could carry the same load as teh B52, but ALSO do M2.0. macnamara was a real piece of shit.
stealth is a first wave threat. the later waves can be less stealthy and use drop tanks, wing mounted stores. the stealths are always payload limited by their internal capacity, small. the A12 fisaco tried to solve that with a huge delta wing that would have made it nearly impossible to land on the carriers it was supposed to operate out of.
have you guys ever heard of the proposed B-1R?
it would follow F-22’s into combat and let the F22’s use the B-1 radar and fire the 20 AMRAAM missles the B-1R would carry from long range. It’d be a missile truck.
Too bad this ability wasn’t included in the US versions of the F35, as far as we know anyways
>>>>they should cancel the pig and buy SU35s, probably can get them for a good price. the navy went for 2 seaters and got a pig, the F4, and kept the great F8 around for fighter escort, a truly classic design. they bought F18s to replace the Ao6, A7s, and the f18 can do neither role.<<<<
Su-35 is an overpriced badly finished aircraft too. Perfornance is pretty impressive but manufacturing quality is way below Western standard and a price of 85 million a pop. It makes sense for communist nations who can’t get the best from the Free World which is the latest F-15.
F-18 is a dog as well. I think it was a first of both sides killed in air-to-air combat during the Gulf War. It was punked by a 1960s Mig.