lol dohkay! The F-35 may be a lot of things including overpriced, but it’s far from junk. Explain to me how you would take an F-4 over modern day aircraft?
They dropped the ball by shutting down the FB-22 project, because they would of had a strike fighter that would have complete superiority for the next 30 years EASILY.
Well, I would not take something like the F-4 as it was, I’d put in newer avionics, perhaps update the engines and so on. It was a capable bomb-truck (and interceptor) although the A-4 and one of my favs, the A-7’s did the job well. Being a Pittsburgher, the A-7 is a fav of mine. I’d like to have seen the F-20 adopted, an up to date version of the F-5. Then there is my ultimate plane, the Avro Arrow, but that is for another time.