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Does this fall into the same area as the Chinese claiming to have shot down an F22?
So my friend sends me this video that talks about, in short, how bad the F-35 is in close quarters combat and how superior 4th gen Russian fighters are. The user in youtube is PowerRussia, so there's obviously a bias.
I'm wondering, what's your take on this?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N0iXFN37iU
Personally, to say the F-35 is a terrible close quarters fighter makes sense. It seems kinda heavy in the VTOL configuration, and it does have smaller wings and lacks thrust vectoring.
I'm not really up on the modern stuffUntil the 'adversary' force deploys stealth technology and/or defeats it - they can't kill what they can't see. Missle technology combined by radar capabilities sez that F-35 and F-22 have a distinct advantage well before the merge.
the capability of a 22/35 hitting his adversary 50-100 miles away at night (or day) while remaining unseen for example, makes it tough to contemplate why any 4th Gen Russian Fighter has an advantage.
Ok, let us take an "incident" into consideration. 2 F-22 vs 6 SU 35's. The F-22's have the 35's on their screens before the 35's can even see the 22's. The 22 pilots tells his computer to target the 35's. The lead 22 does this. It tells the second 22 which 35's it has targeted to that the second 22 targets different aircraft. So now we have 2 22's targeting 6 35's from 50 miles away and so far the 35 can't see the 22's. If/when the 22's fire, the 35's will have a moment to pick them up on radar. The chances are the 35's will pick up the missiles flying at them before they pick up the 22's. Since each 35 has a missile dedicated to it the 22's have only fired 6 missiles. By the time there are even in visual range the 35's will be trying to evade the missiles fired at them. But let them think they can do it, maybe it will slow down the development of new aircraft.