How do you figure that?
Lemme see. Does the PAK-FA:
Supercruise? Yep.
Have super-maneuverability (post-stalled)? Yep.
Have super-maneuverability (energy conservation)? Yep.
Have high combat persistence? Yep.
Those are four things that the F-35 does not have, the F-22 does have and the PAK-FA does or will have.
The only appreciable differences in the F-35’s favour may be low-observables and engine maintenance intervals.
I regard the almost complete focus on software integration (to the detriment of other areas) on the F-35 as a waste of time. If your separate sub-systems do the same, or >98% the job of this highly “optimised”, “fused”, “integrated” (and whatever other bullsh!t Lockheed words to describe it), then that same funding is better spent on improving weapons, or more importantly improving airframe performance.
I meant more as in the F-22 will never be exported. That in itself I think is a huge boon for PAK-FA, since like you, I think it will supersede the F-35 in almost everything.
Yes, podded engines and lack of s-duct included. :dev2:
EDIT; griffon got me.
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