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In reply to the discussion: china lands first jet on it's aircraft carrier [View all]kooljerk666
(776 posts)The design is slightly newer than the F15, not much but a little. This was the thing we need the F-35 to combat. Thing is these would cut a F-35 to shreds. In a F15, F16 or FA18 it is all about who jumps the gun & gets a firing solution first, the F-15, F-16-FA-18 are faster, carry more weapons, handle better & I can not see one thing the F35 does better than any of our older fighter a/c.
The existing Fighters we have now are aging but they are as good or better than the F35. Boeing & Lockheed could easily fire up production for them & new ones would last 30+ years & we could save money, lots of it.
Oh yea, Lockheed saved the tooling for the F22 a very very expensive a/c with no mission so someday if martians or something show up we could start wasting money on them.