That's some real analysis right there. Or not. I don't listen to forums. Even though that's what your asking everyone to do since you've really said nothing of note. I prefer listening to experts who have no vested interest in selling this flying turkey.
Its not "forums" its all leading powers, including ur beloved Russia who want stealth.
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All his "arguments" are laughable.
1) He says that F-15 carried much of "junk" - much of complex electronic stuff that hand no relevance to combat, while F-16 was super awesome.
But what was the basic F-16? - It had not even the BVR capability! It had not laser or navigation pods. So it could only drop dumb bombs in daylight. It had primitive cockpit, virtually no countermeasures.
So all that so called "junk" was added later: BVR capability, Maverick missile, glass cockpit, decoy launchers, wide angle HUD, Harpoon and HARM missiles, navigation and targeting pods, EW suite... Only with all that "junk" F-16 became a real success.
2) He says that F-35 has "tiny wings" so in cant maneuver in combat. In fact F-35A has 42.74 m2 wings while his beloved F-16 only 27.87 m2. F-35C has huge 62.05 m2 wings.
3) "For CAS u need to loiter 4-6 hours". His favorite F-16 and A-10 cant do that either, not even close.
"U need a big gun". F-35 has very powerful 25-mm gun, although gun is last weapon u will use today.
"The tank s not visible from quarter mile or less." - LOL this is so 70-es. Modern megapixel thermals, GMTI and SAR radars can easily detect tanks from 10-15 miles.
4) "2 big bombs is a ridiculous payload". In facts that's standard payload of the F-16.
"internal bomb carriage cause more drag". Yes, clean F-16 has lower drag than clean F-45. However F-16 with externally mounted two large bombs and target pods will have much more drag than the F-35 which remains clean.
5) "Stealth is a scam, it simply does not work". Yet all the world, including the Russians and Chinese design stealth. Long wave radars have have terrible accuracy, thus they cant be used for guiding missiles. It basically can only tell that somewhere there is an airplane. You cant put long wave radar in fighter or even AEW&C, surely u cant put it in missile seeker. You cant put it on small mobile SAM. Due to their size and poor mobility they are vulnerable. Finally they are not majic stealth detectors. Thei r detection range is limited an they can be suppressed.
