Political Nonsense. Not a plane in the sky can shoot it down.
Where did you get THAT idea? It’s ok and pretty good in a sense. It has limited stealth from the front third aspect. It has all aspect missiles so it doesn’t have to do a tail chase. And if it survives the EW environment it’s ability to network with other fighters could work well.
But it cannot out run, out accelerate, and out turn anything.
Not so much for fighting, but for the ability to break contact at will. It’s short legged, lightly and lightly armed.
If you hang more missiles or external tanks, your stealth vanishes.
It’s -way- far from “not a plane in the sky can shoot it down”.
You won’t be far off if you think of it as a light bomber that can sneak in places and fight it’s way out. But if conventional 4.5 fighters find it in daylight, there had better be some F-15s 16s or 22s around to save it.
That’s the problem, getting them in the sky. 29% air worthy, $1.5Trillion in maintenance to keep 29% going. That’s under normal peacetime conditions. What happens to that 29% when under stress of multiple sorties a day? No one is questioning what it can do if it’s available.
Well, I fear we will find out how good the F-35 really is soon. Is it as good as the Mig-35? We shall soon see in the greatest test of them all—combat. Real War—the greatest test of them all.
—> Not a plane in the sky can shoot it down.
Since 2/3 are not flying, I rate this as TRUE
“Not a plane in the sky can shoot it down.”
Military aircraft knowledge not your thing, is it?
“Political Nonsense. Not a plane in the sky can shoot it down”.
That’s what Herman Goering said. Soon after, the P-51 Mustangs appeared and he knew the war was over for the Luftwaffe.