Reply to post: Re: Irrational

USMC: We want more F-35s per year than you Limeys will get in half a decade

eldakka

Re: Irrational

I am not a fan of the F-35, however...

"But against modern air defence assets, I'd expect the F35 to suffer significant losses"

Considering that is outside the specifications and purpose of the F-35, of course it would not do well.

The F-35 IS a 2nd-rate fighter, designed to be the workhorse/bomb-truck to the F-22.

It's use doctrine is:

Let the F-22s and Intruder-type aircraft take out the enemy air defences - aircraft, AA, etc.

THEN the F-35 does the high-rate close-air-support and precision strike sorties, with no significant enemy air defences left intact.

It is not designed to be a front-line dogfighter or a 'penetration'-type strike aircraft, that's the f-22's job.

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