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To: C19fan

The F-35 is really more of a stealthy A-7 than F-4.


6 posted on 09/03/2014 7:13:57 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

The F-35 is really more of a stealthy A-7 than F-4.


Amazingly, the F-35 is more like a replacement for the Grumman A-6 - the F-35 has a much higher weapons load than the A-7.

Both the A-6 and F-35 have similar weapons loads, on the order of 18000 lbs.


14 posted on 09/03/2014 7:36:27 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: tanknetter
The F-35 is really more of a stealthy A-7 than F-4.

actually


35 posted on 09/05/2014 7:12:16 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Wikipedia is wrong. who knew?)
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