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>F-35's developper tried to implement with their special helmet !
Yeah, the F-35 takes a lot from older projects, as you mention the Yak 141 later in your post, did you know that Yakovlev sold the engine designs to Lockheed back in the 90s to receive more funding to keep the project alive? if you see the engine blocks of both aircraft they are very similiar including the transition between VTOL and Flight mode
>"missile paper thing..."
It was even worse, government directive that said that due to the introduction of long range missiles aircraft had become obsolete since anything could just be shot down via ground based Radar and at best they could just be used as missile carriers, hundreds of projects were shelved due to that and the British Electric Lighting was only allowed as a pre-cautionary measure, but kept vastly underfunded, then when they realized their mistake they quickly bought out the Phantom from the Americans along with the Naval Rotary Gunpod
>flown a Yak 52
I got to sit in a Mig-23 once when i was a kid in Poland so i'd say that one is my favourite aircraft