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Yes not at the moment, but also remember that UK threaten to pull out of the F-35 project and carry on with the EF because US was not giving proper rights for the upgradition and installment of the software until very recently
True but did they pull out and if you analyse why you would know why.
ALready apart from the US, eurpoe is developing their own next generation BVRAAM
That is what I am trying to point out, European aerospace industry will always work on niche areas where they can afford .
What makes you think that Europe cannot go for their own 5th generation or perhaps make the EF into a true 5th generation jet?
Because it is already too late mate, it is not even in their planning stage let alone development, f 22 took good two decades, by the time european together consider development of fifth generation aircraft it will be good one decade over let alone development and testing pahase.
You see Europeans are smart, why reinvent the whole wheel when they get it for free that is why their future endevours are on sixth gen aircrafts ie UCAVs such as Dssault Neuron.
What i meant was that EF has almost everything that relates it to a 5th generation.
No where close to fifth gen aircraft all the tech in EF will only make it best in 4'5 generation class of fighters.
It has stealth capabilities,
The RCS values quoted are absurd, they are for vanilla plane not including armaments, why do you think F35 and any other stealth aircrafts have internal weapons bay.
No where close ammm mate. F35's current AESA is an evolution of the AESA employed by F22 so by the time EFcomes up with good AESA f35 would have evolved significantly.all it needs is an AESA radar to make it on par with the F/A-35
I'm keeping in mind the F/A-35 vs the EF.
I dont think it is fair to compare both in first place . EF will play the airdominance role while F35 will play the lead strike role, that said f35 will be way better then EF .However I think EF will remain the best 4.5 gen aircraft built except maybe for Rafale.