The Akasha Colony wrote:Padnak wrote:
He asked if it was a good fighter, and I said it wasn't
In a dogfight between an F-35 and an F-22, my money is on the F-22
As an all around combat aircraft, I don't place as much stock in stealth as most of the people on this thread-
Neither aircraft is designed for dogfighting though. While physical performance is important, the increasing burden is on electronics, both to acquire the target faster and at longer range, as well as to prevent the enemy from doing so for as long as possible. In this regard, the F-35's electronics are better than the F-22's, which should be unsurprising given that the F-35 is a newer aircraft.
I thought that F-22 went 3v3 in terms of "kills" in their trials with the Eurofighter Typhoon in Germany.