Quote Originally Posted by MED View Post
Great! ...a solid step backward in US air superiority is now official! The Vietnam lesson might come back to bite them in the ass again.
The F-35 isn't meant to be a fighter. It's an attack plane, supposed to replace the F/A-18, AV-8B and theoretically the A-10. The F-22 is the Air Superiority bird.

Besides, the F-35 has a gun. It just doesn't have the software to use it!