>>98444406>But reality remains that its bloated budget makes it a undeniable scamfake news, the budget projections aren't money on the table, they're for the entire PROGRAM which, as the units roll out, keeps lowering the price per unit
>and it still loses its "multirole" shit to specialized planes with at least one being ~45 years old now (you know the one),the exercise was admitted to have been done limiting the maximum AoA and G on the computer, using none of the avionic and electronic advantages of the JSF, similar to that dumb exercise where a Rafale "beat" a raptor that was moving in regular patterns and not actually evading
>furthermore Air-to-Air Combat isn't that relevant these days due the asymmetrical nature of most recent wars making Air-to-Surface a more desirable capability.which the F-35 excells at, having a rather big payload, internal space and versatility, excellent loiter time and one hell of a fucking sensors package that may get retrofitted into F-22s because it's so good.
ultimately the F-35 really is the way of the future and possibly as good as manned strike fighters are going to get.
