Champions of the anti-F-35 hype, these guys were all over the F-16 dogfight story.
Meanwhile, they're screaming bloody murder over the production end of the F-22:The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report
We’ve heard of significant shortcomings before with the fighter jet that’s supposed to be America’s future, but this is just as bad as it gets. The F-35 performed so dismally in a dogfight, that the test pilot remarked that the it had pretty much no place fighting other aircraft within visual range.
Because the F-22 had its own hellish development cycle, capped with teething problems, and screaming about its failures was a reflex action for military bloggers? Remember OBOGS and how there were articles saying nobody wanted to fly the F-22?As if they suddenly came to an epiphany, the United States Air Force brass is now admitting what many of us have been screaming about for so long: We didn’t build nearly enough F-22s, and the F-35 cannot simply pick up the slack. So why aren’t those who pushed so hard to cancel the F-22 program being held accountable?
Consider the following: An F-22 getting its ass kicked by a T-38 Talon, a 50-year-old, marginally supersonic trainer aircraft. Ouch. That's not losing to the jet you're supposed to replace, that's losing to the jet that had already been replaced by the jet replaced by two generations before the jet you're supposed to replace.
If the F-22 was still in production, Foxtrot Alpha would collectively come down with priapism and hump out a dozen blog posts about how the F-22 is doomed in a fight against Su-35s on the first day. Because that's their whole schtick: Being internet prophets of military doom for clickbait ad revenue.
I mean, these are the same guys who think the deadliest sub in the world is a dinky Swedish SSK, calling it a "carrier killer," demonstrating -as with the F-35 vs F-16 article- that they have no idea how dissimilar combat training and aggressors work.
Seriously, they suck.
