That’s all useful info, but I’m more interested in the sensors and avionics suites, since the F35 isn’t a dogfighter but a BVR fighter in air to air.
In air-air, I think those characteristics are more germane to the F22 Raptor, where I think we have an advantage.
Do you know of any simulations or studies by think tanks? The only one I’ve reviewed is the RAND sim, where they tested AirSeaBattle vs. China in the South China Sea and in a worst case scenario. The assumptions were worst case for the US, where all fighting Within Visual Range, and they swamped us with quantity vs both the Raptor and 35 and Superhornets.
Im sure there are others out there, but I haven’t found them.
Son, we are going to be crushed. Even Canada finds the F-35 unpalatable. We had better have one hell of a backup, and a full flock of pilots ready to go. We are going to lose every dogfight situation.
I just spent some time on Google. It’s depressing. The situation is worse than I had realized. We cannot hold ourselves in the air in dogfight situations against the SU-35. We need one hell of a backup and the F-22 only gets us partially there. We need to go to Canada and grovel and ask them please to kindly resurrect the AVRO. There is nothing else in the US defense pipeline.