Isn’t the F-22 Raptor a better plane?
I’m pretty sure when fighting the Russians or Chinese, both will be shown to be obsolete. Check out the capabilities of the S500.
Isn’t that the one that we cant make more of w/o starting from scratch because Obama had the tooling/dies/blueprints etc. all destroyed?
Yes, the F22 is stellar.
A much, much better aircraft. Absolutely fantastic fighter.
Yes ....but Obama had the tooling jigs scrapped
Maybe Elon Musk can reverse engineer a new set of tools to make some more
and smaller ones to act as drones.
It's the superior plane but it's not going to be able to defend itself against 100 drones. That's where we are heading.
We should be building motherships with drones in the sky instead.
Yep, the A-10 too. That’s one plane they better not EVER take out of production or retire.
I am not a pilot and I have no special knowledge about fighter planes, but in 2017 I had lunch at a small club in Hawaii which overlooks Pearl harbor with my BIL who was an Air Force F16 pilot and three other Air Force F35 pilots who used to fly F16s. The F35 pilots were discussing technical matters with my BIL and I could not understand a word of what they were saying. I thought, as you do, that the F35 was not very good, based on all that I had heard. Finally, I interrupted them and asked why the F35 was so bad. The conversation came to a complete halt and there was silence for a few seconds, until one of the pilots asked me if I had not been listening to anything they were saying. In their view, the F35 was an outstanding fighter and was so much better than anything else that they compared flying against other fighters to "clubbing baby seals". I do not know what to believe, but I have to respect their judgment on that.
yes but there is no way to make new ones all plans, tools, & production lines are gone