Comments by "Tams80" (@tams805) on "RAF F-35Bs Scramble With F-15s And Rafales To Defeat An Enemy | Forces TV" video.

@majorhippo2772 Those aren't 'stories', that's just how it is. A story would be something like "in the RAF they make you run around naked very morning", or if you're talking to some from the army probably "those RAF ponses spend all their time in hotels". It should be pretty obvious that they only accept that to fly aircraft that cost tens of millions of pounds to buy, maintain and train pilots for each.
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The F-35 is also made by Lockheed Martin. They used a lot of what they learned from making the F-22 in it (refining techniques and reducing the uniqueness and complexity of certain parts). If rumour is to be believed, then the only reason the F-22 one over the YF-23 is because the F-22 can make tighter turns and therefore do better in dogfights. Many considered the YF-23 to be slightly better at several other aspects. Not that that matters as the US never exported any F-22s and they closed down the production lines.
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