An F-35 Lightning II flies over as part of the Heritage Flight, also comprising of the P-51 Mustang, A-10 Thunderbolt, and F-22 Raptor, during Luke Days at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz., March 18, 2018. US Air Force/Staff Sgt. Tyler J. Bolken
Business Insider: The F-35 was once trounced by F-16s in dogfights, but it just proved it can out-turn older jets
* In 2015 the F-35 lost repeatedly in mock dogfights with F-16s because it couldn't turn well enough, a test pilot wrote in an official report.
* But new videos leaked from the US Air Force's F-35 demo or stunt flying team show the jet making head-spinning turns that older jets could never hit.
* A former F-35 squadron commander told Business Insider that the jet has become an excellent dogfighter, and the new moves show it.
Early in its combat testing, a test pilot's damning report leaked to the press and exposed the world's most expensive weapons system, the F-35, as a bad dogfighter that the F-16 routinely trounced in mock battles.
But new videos leaked from the US Air Force's F-35 demo or stunt flying team show the jet making head-spinning turns that older jets could never hit.
In 2015, the test pilot's write up of the jet's combat performance obliterated the idea of F-35 as a capable dogfighter due to a glaring flaw: Weak maneuverability.
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WNU Editor: It is about time.
7 comments:
That's always a long long way to make a new weapon to do its best. I think that's not the end yet.
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I can tell you from experience, complex systems take years to perfect, maybe he Media should have considered that before charging down a path that it's broke.
Best trillion dollars 'merica ever spent! Now we'll never lose another war.
I mean we haven't won a war in 70 years, but the US is due for a win soon. Maybe we could invade Canada.
cynicism is the weapon of the wounded
easy: sit back. be oh so clever while others try to do things
Really makes ya think. Does that mean that optimism is the defense of the healed?
In the meantime let's put lazers and s$%t on it so it can be in position at the exact moment in time and space to shoot pew! pew! pew! a missile down in boost phase. This has the wonderful benefit of costing $bazillions and is so pie in the sky bats#$t that it will take generations to achieve. Thus ensuring a constant gravy train of funding.
Meanwhile, we'll all be dead from heart disease, cancer or car wrecks. Not from a silly, incoherent plot line in a Tom Clancy novel.
You mean the U.S hasn't won the peace!, wars have been won.
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