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7/3/2025, 7:35:10 AM
>>23363551
>But it not more maneuverable. The F-16 was built to be extremely agile and lightweight.
>Especially with the absolute latest versions of the F-16.
It's one or the other. The F-16 loses a lot of its originally designed agility in the latest Blocks after you add CFTs, an avionics spine, stronger radar, etc. The cheap day fighter for NATO you see in this picture is not the same plane as >>23361678.
And apart from maneuverability, F-35 is still a better combat aircraft than the F-16. Why else do you think Israel, Japan and South Korea are replacing their Viper fleets?
>But put it up against another 5th Gen fighter like the F-22, where both planes are equally stealthy, then it's going to come down to a dogfight and the F-35 is a bit of chonker. It can't compete in agility.
That's because they are complementary to each other: F-35 is the "lo" multirole against the "hi" air superiority F-22. And besides, the importance of agility for dogfights stopped being a thing for decades now.
>But it not more maneuverable. The F-16 was built to be extremely agile and lightweight.
>Especially with the absolute latest versions of the F-16.
It's one or the other. The F-16 loses a lot of its originally designed agility in the latest Blocks after you add CFTs, an avionics spine, stronger radar, etc. The cheap day fighter for NATO you see in this picture is not the same plane as >>23361678.
And apart from maneuverability, F-35 is still a better combat aircraft than the F-16. Why else do you think Israel, Japan and South Korea are replacing their Viper fleets?
>But put it up against another 5th Gen fighter like the F-22, where both planes are equally stealthy, then it's going to come down to a dogfight and the F-35 is a bit of chonker. It can't compete in agility.
That's because they are complementary to each other: F-35 is the "lo" multirole against the "hi" air superiority F-22. And besides, the importance of agility for dogfights stopped being a thing for decades now.
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