Because no promise was made to you.

For most customers the choice is simple. There are six aircraft available – F-35, SH, F-15E, EF, Rafale & Gripen E. Pick one. (What the JAST promised in 1992 is irrelevant.)

And so far everybody has picked the F-35. You can chalk it up to corruption, or political pressure or just coincidence. In any event, brace yourself because there are more orders coming yet.

Because most European air forces would put the F-35 over the Eurocanards & Teens at the air-to-air role as well. Its LO characteristics apply to both ground and air based radars.

LOL the concept applies to the F-22, but apparently NOT the F-35. Again more inconsistencies.
In fact the F-22 and F-35 will fire Amraams at around the same speed, mach 1.5, but thats not good enough.

The same with the Rafael

-No self designation for years.

-Inferior kinematic performance to F-22,Su-35

-Just now recieving AESA

-Extremely exspensive for a NON LO, no escort jamming, aircraft. Remember it cant out run or out climb a SU-35.

-Exspensive French weapons.

small orders don’t mean much to F-35 programme but it certainly accelerate closing down of other programmes. so there will be no backup for next 40 years.

So does this mean if 27 planes are cut its no big deal?
Lol

First, not my nation.
Mine is Dante Alighieri,Petrarca, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Raffaello, Leonardo, Poliziano, Brunelleschi, Ariosto, Tasso, Caravaggio, Verdi, Rossini, Bellini… and other twenty pages like so…

So, in your own list the only one you can found as an example of american literature is Mark Twain?
Yes, he is certanly a great writer but almost add Edgar Allan Poe, Hawthorne,Steinbeck, Bukowski, Miller, Pound, Hemingway just to try playing in the same league please…
Certainly you can put also cinema in the art list and almost in this sector your own nation would fare excellently but also in this: Spielberg as the top????
Maybe the issue is right here…

Obviously take all this talking as an half ironic one. No one want to diminish your nation, just to remember that military might, economical wealth and technical prowess are not the only sectors that define a civilization.

My favorite author is Stan Lee.
Now hows about that F-35 lol

this approach wont work. All those bombers need air tankers for refueling. there can be a lot decoys and camo techniques that decrease the actual bomb to the target much less. diesel-electric subs that are much quieter and numerous than SSGN can effectively hit land and ships.

Its 30 planes. If we cant muster enough tankers for 30 aircraft we have bigger problems.
@Msphere Im not the one presenting the Russians as impossible to beat.
If The Russians are going to fire nukes off, on a war they provoked, and over losing SAMs in Kalingrad then they are indeed a danger to the planet. I would recommend the president launch a pre-emptive strike.
Did you see what I did? I used a ridiculous level of escalation as a cop out.
This is what some people here do when they lose an argument. X would never fight Y because it would mean the end of the world.
I don’t know if youve looked at the Russian Frontier lately but it certainly seems like they are planning to fight us conventionaly.
Back to planes.

What are the ways NATO could avoid decoys.

SDB range is in excess of 70 miles.
The U.S. could always just brute force it and use a B-2 or B-21 with 200+ SDBs

I call this operation our arrows shall blot out the sun

https://youtu.be/xcYmlfhShIg

What? Dropping gliding bombs at supersonic velocity?

ROFL

http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123107101

Not from any ranges that would matter, if you can see it with they can see you long before that. You are on foreign territory with several radars covering and overlapping and sending interceptors towards you. Stealth is only an asset it does not make you invisible, forget about such dreams. F-35 does not have the speed to extent its reach nor reduce its time in enemy territory or enemy weapons range.

LoL, the F-35 would launch JDAMS/ Sdb at the same speed as the F-22, Mach 1.6
If the SAM in theory can see the F-35 then Big SAR can see the sam. If the SAM launches then every F-35 in theatre knows Its location. Hiding works. It worked for the Serbs. Try hiding