Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Max Afterburner"
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Some older dual-patch USMC F-35B test pilots who came from Hornets said they use the 28°/sec yaw rate in the F-35 to catch other fighters off-guard doing BFM. Everyone hears what a dog the F-35 is, then is surprised.
USAF has a lot of former F-16CM flight leads who are pitch and roll, rate fighters who obviously don't come from the Hornet.
The Marine Fighter Weapons Instructors said they go vertical, get separation, stomp on the rudder after squaring over the top, and are nose-on so fast without pulling many Gs because of yaw axis.
They snap the nose down faster than their opponents ever expected, and can go out of plane instantaneously too.
Subsonic acceleration is better in the F-35, but it bleeds energy faster than a Viper, so it has to be fought to its strengths.
Slick Viper big mouth should have the advantage, but isn't in a combat configuration.
Centerline tank or ECM pod plus wingtips, 2 & 8 AAMs, and E-jettisoned 3, 4, 6, 7 is roughly neutral with an F-35, depending on fuel state.
Add a FLIR to the F-16 and the F-35 should be dominant.
Block 4 F-35A with the new motor core generating 47,000lb thrust will bring it up to 1.18 T/W ratio on 50% fuel with 6 internal AIM-120s.
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