“It could acquire the A-10 and launch radar guided air-to-air missiles from at least 50 miles away.”
Here is the fallacy about the ability to shoot out of sight targets. The military has had that ability for a very long time. But politically most leaders would not allow that for fear of shooting down a civilian target. Therefore the leaders will throw away the one advantage the US would have against most big league adversaries, technical superiority. You can bet no missiles will be launched without visual verification of the target. Now we’re potentially in a dogfight for which the F-35 is not designed.
“Now we’re potentially in a dogfight for which the F-35 is not designed.”
I thought they were just talking about ground support tests.