Pprune

Via Prune:

Good comments via Low Observable re: F-35.

Exactly, M2. And that's where I see the behavior as trollish.

-Dramatic overstatement. NOTHING (anyone ought to know what capitals mean) beats the F-35 in A2G. Countering such screaming hyperbole factually takes time and effort.

- The "appeal to authority" fallacy. "I would assume the folks... are smart enough". Sure, these smart folks gave LockMart a contract for an airplane they couldn't build, for a budget they couldn't meet, on a schedule that was a joke.

- As you point out, "stellar" A2G? No HDTV sensor, no Rover, no moving-target weapon... Even in 3F.

Let's be real. The guy is here to derail the discussion, for whatever reason.

Also:

SS - Really and over what?

The 2B is a 40kft/Mach 1.2/5.5 g jet. If you have to check out a Global Express you watch as it blows past above you. No AIM-9 so in a QRA your options are to use lethal force from min range or to close to where weapons may be unusable. No gun, nothing for CAS except an LGB.

Rafale today does cruise missile carriage. Six PGMs on six DMPIs. LOROP. Antiship. 6+ AAMs, including Meteor by the time 3F arrives. ESM. Nuclear strike, even. And the F-35 is "the very best multirole aircraft available today in the western world"?

My glass may be half empty but it's not full of what some people are drinking.

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