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In article , Byker says...
"Miloch" wrote in message news ![]() http://abcnews.go.com/US/air-force-r...ry?id=50629597 The United States Air Force could recall as many as 1,000 retired military pilots to active-duty service to address an acute shortage in its ranks. Sounds like "stop-loss" to me. If these pilots are of retirement age, how well are they expected to perform in the cockpit of, say, an F-35? The F-35 is an embarrassment...and at $100M each!...so far, not considered as good as the F-16...I guess what the Air Force needs is more F-16 pilots. https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...trike-fighter/ ...."But that’s not how the plane has turned out. In January 2015, mock combat testing pitted the F-35 against an F-16, one of the fighters it is slated to replace. The F-35A was flown “clean” with empty weapon bays and without any drag-inducing and heavy externally mounted weapons or fuel tanks. The F-16D, a heavier and somewhat less capable training version of the mainstay F-16C, was further encumbered with two 370-gallon external wing-mounted fuel tanks. "In spite of its significant advantages, the F-35A’s test pilot noted that the F-35A was less maneuverable and markedly inferior to the F-16D in a visual-range dogfight. * |
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