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Are you saying the F-35's GAU-22 is not powerful enough to take out a pickup truck? Or is it not accurate enough? Because neither of those are true. According to you, only the A-10 could do this [ame] [/ame]

The Eagle has 8 talons The F-15 Eagle can carry up to 8 missiles Coincidence? I think not.

If you want the cost argument how about considering that if you use the bomb, you can put it on an F-16 already in theater (or any 4-5th Gen multirole), instead of bringing an A-10 unit with the accompanying logistics (which is millions $$$$$)

Despite its impressive size, the F-15 is a nimble navigator. The F-15 is a predator. It has 2 sidewinders and 6 AMRAAMS N I M B L E N A V I G A T O R I & M H I G H E N E R G Y B I L G E H N E A N V E I R G G A Y T O R

Helps you to see the pipper when your diving at less steep angles (30 degree and lower)

Block number doesn't mean anything and P-51B could run 150 Octane. It only matters on the engine and all P-51D had V-1650-7.

Of course I was talking about internal fuel capacity. loiter time with 18500lbs of fuel and internal weapons is probably around 6hrs

You convienently ignore the horizontal dispersion (which doesn't matter at angle) and the second graph. And like it or not, the media like to talk about civilian casualties.

You seem to not be able to comprehend the possibility of CAS missions EVER happening in a high threat enviroment. I'll give you a really recent one. Ukraine Donbass war, where the losses of the UAF effectively grounded them after 1-2 months due to Russian supplied radar and IR guided missiles in the hands of the rebels.

F-35 airframe is probably more durable to battle damage then you would think. Firstly like all modern jets, it uses a lifting body, so even if more then half its wing is missing, it can still fly back and land. A-10 meanwhile is a tube with wings. Secondly and most importantly, the electro-hydrostatic actuators on the F-35 for flight control surfaces are fully self contained. means that if one actuator get shot out, it won't bleed out the whole system.

Su-25 250 rounds DAE SU-25 TERRIBLE GROUND ATTACK LELELELELLEL!!!!!!!!!!!!111111 GAU-22 has pretty much got double the accuracy Never know, could the difference between taking just Abdul Al-ISIS in his Toyota pickup or him together with Kashim in the school 50ft away

AI cheats

It would of been the D-30. Last production block of the Mustang.

The top 1% are blessed with an ass that can feel everything in a plane.

Except you know, new cockpit, new radar, new RWR(?) and got knows what else. It's not a matter of adding R-77 to the weapon loadouts .lua.

Pretty sure F-100 had a ranging radar similar to the Sabre and all F-104 had a radar

Last production blocks B-15 and C-10 models were fitted with the same V-1650-7 engines on the D, and they were a tiny weeny bit faster then the D models AFAIK at the same altitudes since they were less draggy due to razorback and gun ports

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=122801

AI cheats.

Manual says that it is stabilized between -25/+8 degrees. I.e. if you are in a 25 degree dive, radar is still looking horizontal.

By the definition of the word great, releasing CC with SFM would definitely not be great.

I don't think MiG-29 AI can stall its engine.

Yeah, that picture in the OP looks like a blocker not the fan itself.

Try landing F-5E on a carrier, you will drive the landing gear through the wing. And the tail hook is not designed to survive carrier arresting wires.

And you add weight, add complexity with more complex flaps, just saying you add and change stuff and abracadra it now works on carriers is not how it works. Do you really think LM engineers and their subcontractors didn't think about this? They just went "herp derp, we just need bigger wings!"?