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When It Comes to War Games, the F-35 Just Keeps Winning
Simulations give us a sense of how powerful and high-tech the stealth fighter is, and right now the verdict is that it is tough to beat.
Here s What You Need to Know: The Red Flag exercise, and annual live combat-like training event, drew from an unprecedented amount of advanced threat scenarios, representing near-peer threats. Red Flag aggressors, according to the Air Force report, included “advanced integrated air-defense systems, an adversary Air Force, cyber-warfare and information operations.”
As 60 enemy fighters closed in on a US Air Force 4th Generation fighter aircraft, blinding the jet with electronic warfare attacks, an experienced pilot faced unseen life-threatening attackers closing in during an air-combat Red Flag exercise closely replicating actual warfare scenarios back in 2019.
Case Closed: The F-35 Is the Stealth Fighter the U.S. Military Needs
Abandoning the F-35 now would be a huge mistake that would set back U.S. and Allied airpower. And only Russia and China would benefit.
The F-35 stealth fighter jet has had quite a trajectory over a period of many years, including substantial ups and downs marked by some breakthrough successes such as new weapons integration, performance enhancing software upgrades, wargame performance, favorable pilot reviews, growing global demand and some measure of initial combat success.
As part of this multi-year developmental maturation, there have also been some developmental hurdles including computer glitches, technical maturation hiccups and a one-time engine malfunction. Of course, the largest criticism over the years has been cost.