Not all of the F-35s planned weaponry will be carried in its internal bays.
To: sukhoi-30mki
As I understand it, the external hard points and ordnance render the airplane no longer stealthy which kind of defeats the purpose of a stealth fighter.
2 posted on
07/13/2016 9:59:30 AM PDT by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: sukhoi-30mki
Bumped into one at the weekend.
UK F-35B
3 posted on
07/13/2016 10:01:58 AM PDT by
moose07
(DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah. ...Ermentrude chewed on some more grass and watched....)
To: sukhoi-30mki
This is the plane that won’t have a working gun for several more years, right?
(Can we please get a warplane that works, like the F-22?)
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