F-35: The Best Fighter Jet In The World? Damn Right It Is

The F-35 fighter is considered by many as the most lethal and versatile aircraft of the modern era.

Former Defense Secretary James Mattis even called the F-35 “critical” for the United States’ air superiority and praised its ability to integrate seamlessly with allies who have purchased the aircraft.
“The F-35 serves as the backbone of allied airpower for thirteen nations and counting,” Lockheed Martin claims on its website. “Playing a critical role in joint domain operations, the fighter brings unprecedented situational awareness, information sharing and connectivity to the coalition.”
According to Naegele and many other aviation enthusiasts and experts, the F-35 is already a roaring success. In the Red Flag exercises, the U.S. Air Force’s premier air combat exercise, pilots only have “raved about the jet’s performance,” even registering a 20-to-1 kill ratio against a simulated enemy.

Ryan Pickrell of Business Insider noted that “the first details from the exercise suggest that the fifth-generation stealth fighters dominated the opposition, with even novice pilots racking up kills.”

The U.S. Air Force put the F-35 up against “the most advanced weapons systems out there” during a recent Red Flag exercise.

“Even in this extremely challenging environment, the F-35 didn’t have many difficulties doing its job,” Col. Joshua Wood, 388th Operations Group commander, explained in a U.S. Air Force statement.

“My wingman was a brand-new F-35A pilot, seven or eight flights out of training. He gets on the radio and tells an experienced 3,000-hour pilot in a very capable fourth-generation aircraft. ‘Hey bud, you need to turn around. You’re about to die. There’s a threat off your nose,’” he continued.

The pilot eventually took out the enemy jet and then went on to net three more “kills.”

“I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Wood said.
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