then WHY the F designation??? "If we're still planning for dog fights with the naked eye, everyone else in the whole world will eat our lunch."
and since our ROE are limited to visual confirmation, well...
It’s not a fighter and assigning fighter metrics to it is folly of the ignorant.
True. Against a modern air force, it is intended to fly under the umbrella provided by the F22. So while it is designed to be a multitask fighter(bomber), there is still need for some specialization.
I wonder how the F35 or A-10 would do against the latest Russian MPADS?
then WHY the F designation??? "If we're still planning for dog fights with the naked eye, everyone else in the whole world will eat our lunch."
and since our ROE are limited to visual confirmation, well...