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To: Red6
This does seem like a bipolar review of the F35 (too fast, to slow). I thought with vectored thrust and the current power, it is more then capable as a dog fighter - putting out more stress than a pilot can handle?

It also seem that this will be the last fighter of this type due to cost - so it will reign superior as a manned jet. Resources will be shifted to cheaper, specialized units - leaving the F35 as king.

40 posted on 09/11/2008 7:57:40 AM PDT by uncommonsense
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To: uncommonsense
This does seem like a bipolar review of the F35 (too fast, to slow). I thought with vectored thrust and the current power, it is more then capable as a dog fighter - putting out more stress than a pilot can handle?

With the exception of the vectoring nozzle on the F-35B STOVL variant, the F-35 does not have thrust vectoring. And even the F-35B's thrust vectoring is limited to STOVL modes, not regular air-to-air combat maneuvering.

Only the F-22 has thrust vectoring, and that is only in pitch. The Russian Suhkoi Su-30 has two dimensional thrust vectoring in the pitch and yaw planes.

52 posted on 09/11/2008 8:44:08 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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