Hmm that link looks wrong to me, perhaps this is the one you meant to link to?

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-24/lockheed-f-35-testing-may-add-1-billion-to-f-35-cost-gao-says

ARLINGTON — The F-35 Lightning II strike fighter is easily able to counter the adversary services aircraft thrown at it in numbers, said an official of an adversary services contractor, who added that the industry is facing challenges in coming up with a realistic threat aircraft for training for high-end combat.

“Nothing gets close to these things [the F-35s]” said Jeffrey Parker, a former Air Force fighter pilot and chief executive of ATAC LLC, a Textron company that provides opposing aircraft for U.S. fighter squadrons and electronic threat simulation against Navy strike groups. “I’ve flown against the [Marine] F-35Bs down at [Marine Corps Air Station] Beaufort [S.C.] It’s an impressive airplane. Even in the hands of students, it’s a very capable fighter.”

For cost reasons, Parker said, single-engine jets are needed, rather than two-engine aircraft.
The ability of the F-22 Raptor and F-35 to track and engage large numbers of aircraft means that large numbers of adversary aircraft are needed to provide a realistic scenario for training the pilots. For example, the Air Force stations a number of T-38 supersonic trainers at Langley Air Force Base, Va., to provide enough bogeys to challenge the F-22s based there.

“The Raptor is such an uneven fight, that if you send out two Raptors against anything else, there’s no challenge, no work for the pilots to do. For a ‘two-ship’ they want 12 bandits.

“What we see going on is a maturation of the industry” he said. “By going to the fourth-generation level, the Navy is acknowledging that these programs are going to be around and integrated at the highest levels, because now they have radar; pulling 9 gs [nine times the force of gravity] at the merge; [and] helmet off-boresight capability.”

http://seapowermagazine.org/stories/20170418-F35.html

Gripen E could perhaps be a good adversary for F-35/F-22 however probably too expensive… and also it will still take some time before it becomes available. Probably they will get some old F-16 and put AESA radars in them?

Also interesting for the few remaining sceptics that this is another confirmation that the F-35 is indeed starting to deliver.

Germany also plans to add air-to-ground*antisurface*ship attack and suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) capabilities to its*Eurofighter*Typhoons in the coming years.

http://aviationweek.com/farnborough-airshow-2016/fighter-aircraft-procurement-plans-19-european-countries

Anybody who has further info on the German Typhoon SEAD plans?

Ueli Maurer made a comment two years ago, when asked what aircrafts could answer the Swiss Luftwaffe needs he said precisely this “le Gripen, peut etre le Rafale, peut etre un avion Americaine, le Eurofighter n´est plus le favori”.
This does not translate into “it seems Switzerland will invite Rafale and Gripen but not Typhoon for their next eval”.

“This does not translate into…”? you probably mean “this does translate into…”???

Interesting that they are dropping Typhoon — perhaps because of the high cost?

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter—a do-it-all strike jet being designed by Lockheed Martin to evade enemy radars, bomb ground targets and shoot down rival fighters—is as troubled as ever. Any recent tidbits of apparent good news can’t alter a fundamental flaw in the plane’s design with roots going back decades.

http://warisboring.com/f-d-how-the-u-s-and-its-allies-got-stuck-with-the-world-s-worst-new-warplane/

???

I thought the Rand study had been debunked ages ago? What’s happening here?

The US Navy’s ability to hit Syria’s Al-Shayrat Air Base with a large number of Raytheon RGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) on 7 April raised questions about the capabilities of Russia’s air defence systems, specifically its current frontline long-range system: the Almaz-Antey S-400 Triumf.

Read more: http://www.janes.com/article/69581/tomahawk-strike-in-syria-stokes-debate-about-performance-of-russian-air-defences

It is?
Do we have literature in the open public comparing the systems in those aircrafts wich is not a decade old?

The second part of the Swiss eval compared the systems in their 2015 config, which was 2 years ago. Unless there have been significant changes in the plans then it should still be relevant.

Eric Trump says ‘heartbroken and outraged’ Ivanka influenced U.S. airstrike on Syria

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/eric-trump-heartbroken-ivanka-influenced-syrian-airstrike-article-1.3043330

Here I was, believing that there was a grand new strategy at play…