The most advanced multirole fighter that has ever existed.
That is also VSTOL capable.
I love it but the Royal navy at this point would have been better off retiring Gr.9 and 7 and upgrading the FA.2 with the Frs.2 wing 408 engine, and giving it ALARM and a Tpod
Would have saved so much money considering we payed so much for F-35 weapons integration that the US still hasn’t finished.
More than enough to annihilate an entire armored column when its loaded with GBU-53/Spice 250 racks.
This question has been asked so many times online as a sort of gotcha against the F-35. And the answer has always been the same. Because you’d end up spending more money. With the F-15E, you need some CAP escort, some SEAD to go along with it, probably some stealth fighters for deep strikes, and so on. So when you’re sending it somewhere where it would face a decent opponent, you need a whole lot of other squadrons coming alongside it and all the maintenance, fuel, etc. It’s expensive and a logistical nightmare.
With only 1 F-35 Squadron, you can do all of these missions progressively, ranging from deep CAS in stealth configuration to radar hunting, to CAP, to heavy CAS once the AA is dead.
Can someone in short tell me If F-22 is better, worse or equal to Rafale and Eurofighter in dogfight?
Better
At equal pilot skill, so much better its one sided.
They can ride the hype train all they want but it’s probably only marginally better.
Certainly much better at low speed. But the eft has monster power and can likely extend in the canted vertical and win.
But why?
What actually puts it so far ahead of everything else?
It gets sensor fusion? So does the all the Euro-deltas
Its get a good HMD? So does the EFT
Its get a good radar? so does the Euro-delta
The only thing really unique for the F-35 is the 360 IRST
The F-35 can tell you the location of every person on the ground it’s that silly.
It’s got very good range on internal fuel alone even the B.
The HMS shows more things a full 360 and the radar is probably equal to the eft:
But isn’t that also true for F-22? It has Thrust to weight ratio of 1.27 at 50% fuel, At least that what i was able to calculate
So more or less than the 18x Brimstone/Spear the Typhoon can carry?
and bar the SEAD, why cant a Euro-delta do the same?
it can fit more A2A weapons at the same time as carrying more A2G weapons than an F-35 in a single role?
Its literally just seems to be massively overhyped to me
I’ll post my calculation here so if something is wrong one of you guys can point it out
It is and it isn’t
Think tornado Gr.4 vs harrier Gr.9 they can do a lot of what the other can but in some areas one is better:
Too many factors to consider
Guns only or are we talking IRIS-T vs Aim-9X?
High alt or low alt?
1v1 or 2v2?
A lot of factors could change the outcome.
US mains will always say the F-22 will win easily. But reality is that its probably quite close, but in-game that wont matter, because US mains are terrible and will probably still have a bad K/D with it
It can’t jam missiles while notching or going cold though.
Yeah, but there is an attitude that the F-35 is always better. No matter what the situation, the F-35 will be superior
1V1 same pilot skill guns only
leave them out of this. They are stupid I seriously want to know now and get as much info as i can
The truth is no one knows unless they have performance charts of both F-22 and Rafale in front of them.
Purely gun only?
F-22 probably, but I wouldnt go as far as to say the F-22 would always win. Like I have actually gotten gunkills vs F-20s in the Tornado GR4
More, it can carry 24 GBU-53. 8 internally, and 8 on each wing.
Well no and we both understand that.
In limited numbers as a strike aircraft operating in enemy territory the eft is outclassed significantly by the F-35.
If you just want to blow up as much stuff as you can eft is much better.