For DU'ers who know this stuff, what are the advantages of the F-35 over the F-22,

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23. F-35 can see enemy jets coming way before they themselves are seen on

the enemy plane's radar. Basically there would be no point in being in the air if you are going up against the F-35. You would be knocked out of the sky before you know they are there. Less arenas for war are a good thing. That is if Kushner hadn't sold the planes to non NATO countries.

I'm not a fan of war but my dad was a tween when his father went off to WWII in his forties and went to the front and as a sensitive lad my dad was both powerless and aware. The average age of infantry was 26. My grandfather was artillery. Most soldiers did not have teenage sons but my grandfather went to military college and had a brother who fought in WWI. He went when duty called and was one of the oldest Captains in the Canadian Army. Needless to say my father would watch soldiers train at the airfield near his home. My dad could name the type of plane flying overhead just from the sound including german ones which is what that airfield trained soldiers in. At boarding school during the war he was a football player and a swimmer and put out an edict that nobody was to lay a hand on any jewish kids or he would beat them up (he never had to, the only fight he ever got into was when someone hurt a cat in university). He got a call out-thank you from a canadian jewish elder when my brother was a kid and they were at an event at a different private school. He followed WWII military history for the rest of his life, he especially liked Barbara Tuchman. My granfather never talked about the war to us but military history was one of the ways my dad coped as a kid as well as doing so well at the butterfly stroke they reccomended that he go to the U of T highschool for elite swimming training. He stayed at the private school where he was.

He talked military history to us kids not because war was good but because it was something you had to cope with your whole life afterwards. People cope in different ways. That is where i get it from. Mostly dad talked politics.