One should take into account that CFTs are affecting the extrados, not always the best thing to do…

Didn’t the big Euros went in production well after the legacy fighters ? Isn’t it expected that their software architecture is more mature, more advanced, more in line with future needs ?

What is not normal is that one of the program had some tremendous difficulties to be fully reliable, down-to the point that the huge deficiencies have rendered it ineffective as a whole (TrI)

Both have failed to secure a decade of exclusive performances due to program delays, MLU of legacy platform (16-60
/15K) or dissemination of tech. In 5 years, when the 35s (the Su and the F) will be out in numbers, what will be left as exclusive to the Raf or the Typhoon?

Nothing (or nearly nothing).

LM could build a super16 that will outpace many of the perfs of b

i dont deny that big Euros went into production well after legacy. I just wanted to put things back in their context. F35 brings more LO than Eurocanards, good, but sensor fusion it is not a “revolution” as compared to them . It is as compared to US MLUs.
No more no less.
For the rest, we will see…

Eg take a look…

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I’m tempted to say “as usual”…Sry to German friends, but it is becoming a recurrent behavior (A400M etc.)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/us-germany-airbus-idUSBREA1I1G220140219?feedType=RSS&feedName=businessNews

Germany cancels delivery of last 37 Eurofighter jets: source

It’s not just raw processing power, but what it collects, how it collects it, how it processes it, and how it shares it that sets the F-35 apart.

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Explain exactly how please? (apart from the see through the plane capability)

Well….

he F-22, when it was produced, was flying with computers that were already so out of date you would not find them in a kid’s game console in somebody’s home gaming system.

Gen. Michael Hostage, head of Air Combat Command

This is one of those things I find completely hard to swallow. I’m not going to sit and yell that the AN/ASQ-239 is so much more advanced than S

Sincerely, F35 will have some unique capabilities (like see through) and certainly an excellent data fusion system. But claiming that the capability to fuse data from diverse sensors so as to generate a track a single sensor wouldn’t be able to as “unique” make me think about Steve Jobs claiming Iphone 5 is a revolution….

Yeah, instead the pilot will have to crank their head around to see whats behind them and then continue to maintain the spatial awareness to fly the aircraft.

How well did that (very) reclined seat work on the F-16? It worked so well they decided to abandon it for all subsequent aircraft.

It has its uses, certainly yes. A paradigm shift in air combat? Ha. Barely a ripple. Its a niche.

So pilot will have to turn their head 180° to see whats behind on their HMS???