Posted on 08/19/2025 9:24:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
“you should be able to understand that it is not a great airplane”
Nonsense.
The F-35 is the best strike fighter the world has ever seen. It can fly the entire length of the Ukraine line and not get hit.
And it has the ability to see and shoot other aircraft from 100 miles away...while not being seen itself.
External carriage? No stealth aircraft has external weapons in stealth mode...but you can load up the F-35 with 50% more payload than the F-16 if you wish to sacrifice stealth.
The F-35 has nearly twice the combat radius of the F-16 on internal fuel.
The F-35 has a flyaway cost of a F-35A is $82.5 million. One of the cheapest western fighters in the world.
I suppose it might be interpreted that way, but sure doesn’t read like it. Hornet and Super Hornet are arguably the more successful progeny of that distant competition.
Believe what you want to and don’t let facts get in your way. Sure does not matter to me but your view feels a lot biased if not a conflict of interest. You sound a lot like someone who is selling and not buying or using.
Have a great day!
Lockheed did the transports, Boeing did the fighters. Now Lockheed does the fighters, and Boeing does the transports. Got to keep the money moving.
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