>>More evidence that the F-35 will not be able to do the job it was promised to do.<<
A camel=A mouse built to government specifications.
The F-35 was a great idea. Then the bureaucrats got ahold of it.
The F-16 and F-18 will probably continue to be the best MRFs well into the century.
And since the F22 was scrapped (I’ll never know why), the F-15 once again rules the skies.
Old airframes but designed back when we could actually ACCOMPLISH things.
I have long wondered why we didn’t take existing airframes, power plants, and avionics and update them. Think what an F-16 could do with a bit of stealth technology, canards, and vector thrust exhaust nozzles. What could the F-14 do with similar technology?