LegionnairE
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F35 can supercruise... it just can't maintain it for too long, it'd be nicer if it did but I'll take what I can getThe F-35 cannot supercruise. And nobody is suggesting we use the EJ200 - we would be using the EJ230, which has higher thrust and thust vectoring. Read. You don't know what you're talking about, as usual.
F135 wasn't initially developed for supercruise, that'll almost certainly change in the future variants.
as of now I don't have any credible data on EJ230... I don't follow defense news as closely as I used to... but I don't think the thrust may have changed that dramatically from the original EJ200
Here's the thing, F35 already has a much longer range than F16. To build an air superiority craft that could supplement F35 you'd need to be able to store much more fuel, therefore you'd need a bigger airframe therefore you'd need bigger engines so it doesn't suck.
So unless they can scale up the EJ200 for us, we can't make anything other than a glorified multi-role fighter with them.
Yeah thrust vectoring is a neat little feature but it doesn't solve our problem. We need bigger engines.
and F135 is too big for a twin engine fighter layout... as I said it'd become more of a B1 or B2 rather than an F22.