It does not look very efficient at all lol.

god no! frak, dont put any ideas in their heads man!

* low whistle *

yup that is a looker. Still to my -untrained- eye the boing plane looks good if perhaps more expensive than the raytheon and northrop ones. It seems to have more growth capacity, indeed able to be a light strike fighter if needs be. Nose certainly has the diameter for a fairly useful radar.

Oh man that Northrop demonstrator looks SO much better, cheaper and more efficient than that LockMart abomination!

Interesting pics archangelski, mind telling us what the drone and the chopper are? I guess rooivalk bug not sure.

I am confused.. is the F-35A IOC now?

Yes. But. The goalposts defining what IOC entails did get moved in order to make it happen. The general dude even admitted to that in the large bit of copypasta upthread.

So nobody thought to bring an IR camera to an airshow? sheeeeit, i might need to get me one for that, just to end this debate. heh or spark a furious new round of it.

Oh yeah those shock condensations were F’ing spectacular. well and truly jaw dropping. More to do with circumstances than any qualities of the airframe tho, right?

I had expected the plane to be bigger, more ungainly. In the air it seemed quite nimble, displaying a fine and precise roll rate among other things. I was pleasantly surprised. The skin of the plane sure looks like a billion dollars, even smoother than the eurofighter, which makes the F-16 parked next to it look primitive. And then there was a MiG-29. That thing looked bloody well agricultural in the way it was put together. Anyway, just some n00bs mk1 eyeball observations.