F-35

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(10-01-2018, 06:45 PM)Dill Wrote: What exactly is its mission then? Seems like the comparison to the A-10 is bit unfair, as that was a tank buster, not a fighter aircraft.  The f-35 's big plus is stealth, right? can't hook up all those weapons pods with negating the stealth capacity.

It's supposed to be the every-plane. "You can replace X many different types of planes with this plane!" They have been trying to scrap the A-10s for years by calling the F-35 capable of performing CAS. Hence the comparison. The Air Force even had a CAS competition between the two that it "won" (after heavily rigging the competition, which was designed exclusively by a contractors with finanvial interests in the F-35).
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a22118621/f35-a10-warthog-flyoff-pogo-report/

The problem is, by trying to make it capable at doing all the roles, it's pretty much made it useless at doing all roles.

(10-01-2018, 07:32 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Not to mention the F-111.

Heck, they were killing test pilots left and right in new planes back in the heyday 50's and 60's.

Yeah, but they didn't have Twitter then to tell their woes to the world, and were likely just told to have a cigarette and walk it off.