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The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report

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We’ve heard of significant shortcomings before with the fighter jet that’s supposed to be America’s future, but this is just as bad as it gets. The F-35 performed so dismally in a dogfight, that the test pilot remarked that the it had pretty much no place fighting other aircraft within visual range. (foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com) 更多...

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preacher1
preacher1 5
Hunk of Junk. "We won't dogfight anymore. We don't need a gun". Somebody forgot to tell the North Vietnamese MIG's as they came out after gunless F-4's.
jdriskell
Maybe the F-35 is the new FTX. Johnson and McNamara strike again!!
oowmmr
oowmmr 1
With all the counter measures how could somebody get jumped? Seems they'd be firing a missile from the distance.
preacher1
preacher1 1
I'm wondering how they can dogfight with no gun anyway. Last I saw, a gun would not be available until about 2020 or so and then would only shoot about 600 rounds.

lboyette
Here is another article on that from ARSTechnica. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/report-in-test-dogfight-f-35-gets-waxed-by-f-16/

It's really sad when the plane it's meant to replace can kick its arse. Epic fail.
onceastudentpilot
Well if it can't fly fast because of excessive fuel burn and can't dog fight just make it the replacement for the A-10.
Helicrazy14
Your actually close, the F-35 was always meant to replace the A-10 not the F-16. It's the F-22 that is meant to be the new dogfighting aircraft. There's a reason why the F-35 is called Joint STRIKE Fighter
s2v8377
s2v8377 0
Bring back the "fighter mafia"!!! They knew how to design airplanes!!! F-15 and F-16, need I say more!!!
btweston
btweston 2
Actually the fighter mafia is what gave us this useless fighter in the first place.

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