What part of ‘I will post it later’ do you fail to understand? I am on restricted bandwidth and have not been able to search for the necessary amount of time to find a single website, the details of which I did not save, in all of the Internet. Do you automatically take those who disagree with you as liars? You have no evidence to prove I have fabricated this and only your own beliefs to make you think I might. Unless of course you’d like to provide any instances of me providing information I knew was fabricated and untrue, I consider this nothing more than a (rather extreme) result of your disagreement with what I have to say rather than a claim with base or substance.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22-program.htm

The fighter pilot is able to do whatever he wishes with the F-22, without fear of loss of control, loss of thrust or aircraft structural overstress. Specifically, this has resulted in an unlimited angle of attack (AOA) capability for the aircraft’s basic combat configuration (for example, all internal carriage of weapons and no external stores). There are no AOA limiters, and, most importantly, no restrictions on flightpath.

This being the case, the best case scenario would be parity.

Su-27 and F-16 are 5-6 years apart, not 25. Check the facts first and leave your stupid nationalism home, I am not interested. Thanks.

But what version of the Fulcrum/Flanker did it take to become better than F-15/F-16s? It wasn’t until they added Bars/IRBIS type avionics and TVC, that they achieved parity/superiority. They still don’t enjoy avionics/weapons superiority over the latest variants of the US planes/missiles.

Against fighters even designed to be extremely unstable to give them the absolute maximum agility, possess TVC, and larger use larger lift and control surfaces, any advantage comes from the FCS, which is rather more subject to evolution than physical characteristics. Given that it’s already been admitted that TVC’d Flankers have better high AoA performance than the Raptor, and the F-35 is stated inferior to the Raptor, what are you trying to claim here?

Do you have a source stating that any Flanker has better high AoA performance than the Raptor? I’ve yet to see that.

LOL..

Is that from your weekend school of marketing? Sounds almost like a recruiting leaflet to some kind of a JSF-worshipping sect.
I must think hard about when did I see a pile of cheap crap as big as this single response contained..

So do you have source to discredit John Beesley’s assessments? At least he’s flown the plane. You’re just making assertions without any personal experience on the matter, or evidence to back it up. Not being as good as an F-22 is not = to a Lemon. The F-35 can turn as well or better than a clean F-16, out accelerate a clean F-16(in military power), has superior high Alpha maneuverability to an F-16, and has DAS(superior situational awareness)/HOBS/JHMCS/VLO airframe. No one anywhere(in the know) has said that the F-35 can’t turn, or is slow. They have said that its avionics/weapons have mitigated the necessity though.

Does that software tell you how to make the materials too? 😉

Or maintaining them in real world conditions for that matter.

No superiority or inferiority was ever demonstrated, there never was a major conflict between east and west that would prove anything. The most objective reference available would probably be Iran-Iraq war.

Israel
USAF
USN
among others have had pretty good success with their weapons

At what point they were inferior?

At what time in engagements involving Western planes/missiles vs. Russian planes/missiles, has the latter demonstrated superiority? How many of the current Russian missiles have ever been fired in real world conditions? What Russian missile is superior to the AIM-9X or latest AIM-120? or Meteor, or ASRAAM, etc…

I’ve already covered this – Of course we don’t know any of the information you’ve outlined, like I already said, but I know enough to find any suggestion of discounting any possibility that the F-35 won’t be threatened by a PAK FA or J-XX extremely misguided. Whether or not a hypothetical F-35 engine upgrade gives the design some supercruise capability, it’s hardly native, and their development isn’t going to stay static over time either, although upgrades for them will of course take longer to appear.

We don’t even know the max cruise speed of current F-35s, much less future F-35s. Remember- LM and the USAF use M1.5 as the definition of supercruise, so when they say the F-35 doesn’t supercruise, that doesn’t mean that anything below M1.5 isn’t possible. We also don’t know what the supercruise ranges of the PAK FA/J-XX will be. What this means is it isn’t a guarantee that their proposed cruise speeds will always provide a kinematic advantage. My guess is that if you have two foes each with VLO aircraft, they’ll both be flying subsonic the vast majority of the time, when facing each other, as they won’t detect each other at significant ranges.