I'm talking about the dry weight, it's twice the F35 or EF2000... you'd need twin F135s for a plane that size
have you ever seen a %100 thrust incerase between two versions of an aircraft engine? give me one example in the human history.
WHAT? NO!
they'll see each other on the radar once they get close enough for the radar cross sections to get big enough for the radars. RCS changes depending on which angle you're approaching the oher aircraft from and we don't know much about RAM materials on each plane to assess who's going to see whom first. But because T50 is a bigger airframe they'll need much more advanced and probably more expensive RAM to conceal it from radars. So my bet is that F35 is going to detect T50 before getting detected itself. And seeing from those nozzles, I bet that F35 will be able to still use it's AIM 120s in BVR if it can approach from sides or rear.
This is why I'm saying that we should cancel TFX for now. We need to use F35 for a while and assess it's weaknesses before we can advance to a better fighter. Right now with the current engine selection it's nothing but a waste of billions of dollars.
We can better spend that money somewhere else... we could develop a heavy lift helicopter with the experience we've got from the T129. We need that much more than we need two multi role fighters in our inventory.
Having two types of them completely defeats the purpose of a multi-role fighter.
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@gambit where are you?