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An aircraft, by it's very nature, is a platform. Not a tech. The same platform can incorporate technology from various generations. That is why and how fighter planes usually stay in service relevantly for 30-40 years without any problem. Aviation expert Bill Sweetman had prepared a...

F-35's internal weapon bays offer the ability to reduce it's combat-config RCS level. But that internal payload is pathetically small. In a multi-mission scenario, a load of 2 AAMs and 2 JDAMs is what you'd as call totally inadequate. With the kind of missiles USAF F-35s carry (AIM-120D), you...

But in the sky sir, there are no speed bumps.

A "split order" of MMRCA does not make sense for a country that hopes to develop a whole ecosystem for the fighter it buys. There will be ~200 Rafales eventually. And 0 Super Hornets.