Imagine going around a racetrack, except in this case, you want to come around the racetrack faster so you can get behind the other racer and shoot them. ….By comparison, the F-16 is a great ‘weight fighter.’ It has a lot of high thrust for the weight. So one of the things that we would always try to achieve was to force the fighter jet to go in the direction that would be advantageous. That aircraft has excellent high airway maneuvering capability. Certainly the F-35 has some advantages that the F-16 does not, particularly in its helmet integration, along with its advanced weapons, which are a lot more beneficial in platforms like the F-22 or F-35”į-35s: How They Compare With F-16s & F/A-18s Honestly, you know I think it would be quite eye-opening to see an F-35 and an F-16 in a BFM engagement, depending on how it was managed. So to say that the F-35 can't Basic Flight Maneuver (BFM, a term for dogfight), I think is a gross overstatement. The entire CLAW (Flight Control Laws) hadn't been delivered yet so the guys hadn't really developed tactics, techniques, and procedures, etc.
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It's been the narrative ever since and I want to say a few things about that….įirst of all, it should be noted the aircraft ( F-35) was in its infancy stages and we were still just trying to learn how to fly the airplane. “I was at Edwards Air Force Base when the test pilots were there and they were writing that original report. However, what about the actual merits of the question itself? How well can the F-35 dogfight? Would it truly be out-performed by an F-16? An Air Force pilot who was there at the time says the answer is clear.
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