...”Oleg Panteleyev, head of the Russian Aviaport analytical agency, said the fighter jet could be a rival to the U.S. F-35 stealth fighter.”
from what I have been reading lately about the F-35, and its many many design flaws, the fact that it is not now nor will it probably ever live up to the expectations of it, and how billions of American tax dollars keep being poured into this flawed aircraft, I don’t see how the F-35 could be considered a rival to this new Russian fighter... jus’ sayin’ .....
Combat tends to prove whether it was a good idea or not.
Every problem faced by the F-35 are blown way out of proportion. The F-35 is the best fighter/attack aircraft flying today. All one needs do is read what the pilots say about it and their lives depend upon the F-35 being the best. Also, I’m all the Red Flag exercises the F-35 has flown several 1 vs 6 against F-15’s, F-16’s, F-18’s, Euro aircraft etc...etc .. and in those engagements the F-35 is allowed to use it’s full sensor, combat and stealth suite of capabilities, it has never been beaten. The 6 aggressors are always shot down before those pilots even know they’ve been targeted. The F-35 has many capabilities that no other combat aircraft in the world possesses. So much of what is written about the F-35 is disinformation, much of the time written by people who were part of the competing program which lost the competition and they’re still very upset by that, thus they hype way out of proportion the problems.
from what I have been reading lately about the F-35, and its many many design flaws, the fact that it is not now nor will it probably ever live up to the expectations of it, and how billions of American tax dollars keep being poured into this flawed aircraft, I don’t see how the F-35 could be considered a rival to this new Russian fighter... jus’ sayin’ .....