If you Designed your own Fighter plane, what Characteristic would you want most?

[Soundbreaker Welch?]

Well you could fly a bomber. Droping bombs causes more damage than bullets.

Seems like today guided missiles do most of the fighting between aircraft anyway.

 

[drewwizard]

I want 20mm rounds to bounce off me like rain drops!

A sturmovik fan?

 

[drewwizard]

My vote was stealth. The F-22 was a complete game changer. If you can't see me, I can do all kinds of bad things to you and get away with it. pull up hose you down, and drift away.

 

[pbehn]

My vote was stealth. The F-22 was a complete game changer. If you can't see me, I can do all kinds of bad things to you and get away with it. pull up hose you down, and drift away.

Ive seen pictures of an F 22

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

My vote was stealth. The F-22 was a complete game changer. If you can't see me, I can do all kinds of bad things to you and get away with it. pull up hose you down, and drift away.

Stealth is not invisible however. You can see an F-22, you just may not realize it is an F-22...

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Let me rephrase my above post. All I was saying is that stealth technology is not 100% effective. There are two many factors involved. Basically what stealth does is reduce its radar cross section. It does not make it completely "invisible" to radar, but can make it very hard to detect.

I am pretty sure the F-22 is about as "invisible" as you can get though. I believe Lockheed Martin said it was the equivalent of a steel marble, so yeah you may not see it coming...

 

[Zipper730]

never mind