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The Portuguese Air Force is no longer expected to acquire the 5th generation F-35 fighter from Lockheed Martin, all due to the review of the US position towards NATO.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 15 hours ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

it's trash, if you ignore literally everything it's good at, which is basically everything it's designed for.

Turns out cars aren't very good at crossing the ocean. Who would've thunk a fighter jet not designed for dogfighting wouldn't be designed to dogfight. Truly a baffling conundrum.

By all metrics available, the F35 is literally the most capable jet in existence, it's technological capabilities are literally unmatched.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

F35 is designed to be a multirole fighter-bomber, it's a jack of all trades, but has some serious tradeoffs in stealth and maneuverability. And before you go off (rightfully) about how dogfighting is mostly irrelevant in the modern age, manuverability is also how you crank to avoid missiles at long range.

The F22 can take on multiple F35s at the same time and smoke 'em.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I never understood why they stopped making the F22. Less profit, probably.

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