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THIS BABY SEAL FIGHTS BACK Lockheed Martin claims US Air Force analyses show the F-35 (pictured here landing at Edwards AFB) “is at least 400 percent more effective in air-to-air combat capability than the best fighters currently available in the international market”. (JSF PO)
Clubbing baby seals in a forest of hype
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It was interesting to see Lockheed Martin and JSF program office (JPO) officials go on the front foot recently following new attacks from the F-35’s critics.
The latest series of criticisms started to get air in early September after a former USAF architect of the lightweight fighter concept which spawned the F-16 and YF-17 claimed in a report in Jane’s Defence Weekly that the JSF is a “dog” which will be no better than the current generation of western aircraft, and will be comprehensively outclassed in dogfights by advanced variants of the Su- 27/30/35 Flanker family.
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