“The Yak-141 is American!”
As an American i know the F35 is a boondoggle.
And as a ground main i dont care.
true, you’ll ger Pavewayed anyways
Why ya’ll gotta diss “fat amy”, it’s not like only the US is getting one?
(Green, blues & purple = operates F-35, orange = expecting delivery)
When it comes it’s gonna be a top tier aircraft in US, GER, UK, JAP, IT, SWE, IL. That is 7 out of 10 in-game nations.
For those disparaging Amy’s turning ability, look at this RAAF go:
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EF 2000 is still a better fighter
Rafale and Gripen E probably too
honestly even a late F/A-18 may be a better fighter just because it can carry more AMRAAMs
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Such a boondoggle that so many countries around the world want to buy it right…
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they bought the Starfighter too
Plus unlike the Starfighter this one is essentially a slightly better performing Stealth F-16, which is more than good enough for what it needs to do.
I really don’t understand most of the hate it gets…
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the USAF blamed the plane 3 years after it was introduced and promptly removed it from service
the Luftwaffe KNEW about it’s problems before they bought it and still did it, killing 116 pilots
it has a very bad reputation because there was a political scandal behind it and on paper it’s numbers make it look really bad
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To be fair they wanted a strike fighter from the start, but were pressured into buying the Starfighter regardless.
Japan also originally wanted the F-11 (G.98J) over the Starfighter. I’m sure there are others too, the way the Starfighter was sold just a big bunch of bribes by Lockheed.
it was sold as the ultimate solution when in reality it was a horrible idea and the Kommando Luftwaffe knew about it
Wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s outright bad. It’s a very good supersonic interceptor. The issue was about how it was sold, especially to nations like West Germany wanting something completely different, but the Starfighter wasn’t a bad aircraft fot its intended role.
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im comparing it because you made it sound like countries buying a Jet means that it is a good Jet which it really doesn’t
Anyways this shits off topic, I’ll stop this here
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The funny thing is that it was originally envisioned as a F-100 replacement for Tactical Air Command, guess what they do? Its not Interception(That’s the Air Defense Command’s job), but CAS, and tactical usage.
The only reason the US ever used them as interceptors was because of delays to the production of sufficient F-106 airframes and so the first tranche (of F-104A’s) were redirected to ADC as a stopgap.
And so TAC when they eventually got their hands on them they ended up being basically useless due to limited fuel and Stores capacity, they were released for FMS in short order since the F-105D / F-100C were actually useful in the role.
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And some MICAs from Rafales :p
10s to take off and go immediatly up in the sky, always have a grudge about one WT CC who said it have 0.86 TWR…
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I don’t think the F-2 will be coming anytime soon.
The trend usually goes as follows:
America and Russia get a new top-tier meta plane - they will be the meta for a few months - then FR, SW and China get something equivelant - then GB and ISR and after those 2 nations we get something for JP and IT.
EDIT:
Perhaps we will see a change in the trend this time around. (i sure hope so)
Its well know the F35 flight performance ain’t great
The B and C models have a G limiter of 7.5
This is because no one dog fights anymore IRL it should take out any threat at BVR before it gets to WVR
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Well, with the 360 degree vision system in any direction and 180 degree off bore sight capabilities of the AIM-9X it can perform fine in dogfights without dogfigthing well itself.
The only stories I’ve heard of it losing mock dogfights was with that system disabled.
The F-35 is a flying cheatcode. Only thing I can think of where it would lack for some potential buyers, that are even allowed to buy it, is long range high speed interception. I could be wrong but I believe there are better choices for that.
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