peacepuma wrote:The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report
Tyler Rogoway
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David Axe.
LOL, the only thing worse than having a post quoting Tyler Rogoway or a post quoting David Axe is having a post quoting both
That "episode" that you're quoting was already debated and explained to death here at f-16.net!
The short story about it, is exactly what marsavian posted so I won't repeat it (by using other words).
If you want to really know how a F-35 would face against a F-16 in terms of "raw performance" here's the real deal from a real Norwegian pilot which flew both the F-35 and the F-16 (the English part of the article is on the second and bottom half of the page):
https://nettsteder.regjeringen.no/kampf ... ed-so-far/And note that he's taking about raw performance when pitting both aircraft. He's not even mentioning electronics/avionics that much.
You came up here claiming about the F-16 pilot having a HMD and IR guided missiles such as the Python IV/V which can be aimed by the helmet as some sort of a "silver bullet" against the F-35 but then do you forget that the F-35 has an even more advanced helmet of this kind which can aim AIM-9X and ASRAAM missiles.
Moreover do you forget (or simply don't know) what F-35's DAS is??
With DAS a F-35 pilot will always know where the F-16 is all around with a 360º spherical coverage, all of this if the F-16 ever happens to "get close" to a F-35.
DAS alone and I mean alone, already gives the F-35 a tremendous/BRUTAL advantage over any other aircraft (including of course the F-16) namely during a dogfight, then add the fact that the F-35 has better overall agility, stealth, sensor fusion, etc... and the chances that the F-16 could ever win against a F-35 are at best, very, very slim!
Now if you want to continue to believe in fairies, unicorns and leprechauns please be my guest!

“Active stealth” is what the ignorant nay sayers call ECM and pretend like it’s new.