Whatever he claims, there is no money for more F-35s simply.

And your evidence for that assertion is?
You’re obviously entilteld to your opinion (and that is all it is, an opinion and not a factual staement as you tried to assert) but I will take his word over yours until you can show me proof that it cannot happen, which of course you can’t.

No, not if the pilot has a fighter with inferior speed but superior agility.

Not wishing to be condescending but from that statememt I woild imagine you’ve never been around many fast jet pilots and served in an airforce. The bottom line is that it’s great fun to practice WVR and a necessary skillset but no sane pilot actually wants to go WVR when the real hostilities break out, non that i’ve ever worked with anyway. They all want to make the kill before being seen from as far away as possible and never be forced into a furball or dogfight as it is suicidal.

And speed certainly does not override all concerns either! I’ve really no idea where you’ve got that from but if it did airforces would all be wanting very high Mach aircraft such as the Mig-31. If you don’t believe me take a look at the requirements that were set for the current era of fighters and note how non of them required speeds in excess of around Mach 2 with many such as the Rafale and F-35 coming in below that Mach 2. I know of very very few pilots who ever got anywhere near maxing out the aircraft they flew.

and one thing i forget got to mention , while radar guide missiles can’t lock stealth fighter from very far that doesn’t mean they can’t lock at stealth fighter at all 😉 stealth # invisible so i think CUDA can lock at stealth aircraft from at least 1-2 km so it be use as a compliment to cannon 😀 and as they are hit to kill missile so they have no problem hitting target at very short range unlike normal missiles ( aim-7 , aim-120 );)

Hi, i’m not wishing to be awkward but perhaps its wise to leave proposed weapons such as CUDA out of these debates for the moment as we simply do not know anywhere near enough about it at this time to even hazard a guess as to what situations it will be of most use in and how effective it might be, thats if it even gets produced at all of course. Thanks.

Just a quick something to add, when talking IR missiles or IRST’s against the F-35 one must take into account the F-35 uses a system where the aircrafts fuel is used to cool various hotspots such as the the leading edges.
How effective this cooling is would obviously not be public knowledge but I would very much doubt they’d plumb in such a system if benefits were only very slight.
Also, the F-35’s engine is pretty well buried within the fuselage unlike many other aircraft which should aid in reducing the IR signiture from many angles.