Comments by "G L" (@gelinrefira) on "F-35, Why is it the Best Fighter in the World Today?" video.

@bodybag22 Gaining air superiority is the most important part of any opening moves in warfare today. Air to air combat and its cousin suppression of air defenses are always going to be relevant. Lose the air, and you lose high ground and you lose the war. Stop talking about things you do not understand.
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@xeigen2 That's the thing. What F-35 can do, especially in the sensor fusion, distributed sensor, datalinking part are not going to be ignored by other countries or companies developing their own fighters. Even the latest F-18s are going to get AESA and datalink, and a lot of upgrade, so much so it is nearly a completely new aircraft. Of course, there is indeed only so much you can do with an old airframe so they will never be as good as F-35 which is designed from ground up to use these technologies and tactics. I am pretty sure all the new 5+ gen fighters will try reach F-35 capability and all the last gen 4.5+ fighters will incorporate as much of these lessons as possible. Look up the Saab Gripen, it is a fighter that is built with gen 5 software and hardware capability with a more modest and cheaper gen 4.5+ airframe. The software, situational awareness, detection all that are all generation defining features and it is F-35 which first effectively incorporate them all together into a single jet.
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A-10 lovers are not going to like this video.
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