The F4 Phantom at design time was considered so superior that it didn't even need guns, they could do it all with missiles.Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 3:16 pmC-Mag wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 3:12 pmI don't know about that. Probably depends on the type of fight.Speaker to Animals wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2019 3:10 pm
F-35 would lose in a fight against most fighters today. The Jews won't even lift a finger.
It carries only 4 decent missiles, and at best maybe one would hit a target. At guns range it dies because it's a poor performer all-around. Then there is the fact that the stealth is useless, since even the Serbians were able to target that material in the 2000s.
Analysts have predicted it would fall to MiG-21. It's that bad.
Then they ended up adding these under the belly.
Design Assumptions can be a MF