Talk:F-35C Lightning II/@comment-50.152.210.97-20141006110738/@comment-26339161-20150424161302

The F-35 is a turkey...limited weapons load no internal cannon, poor load capacity, the software is completely FUBAR for the so called battlefield links to other aircraft and ground forces (can't link to more than one other aircraft at a time) and it flat out doesn't do anything well...it should be scrapped and updated versions of the A-10 and other aircraft should be worked on to include completely new airframes...you can't replace the Warthog...the YF-23 actually outperforms both the F-22 and the F-35 and could be easily upgraded...the current fighter fleet will beat anything out there if you modified them or built completely new airframes...they like to retire older aircraft that still do the job better than the new generations like the F-14...Even if you built new or modified old F-4s to fly by wire, upgraded engines, avionics and weapons systems you would still have one hell of a fighter bomber...as it was the F-4X program was said to have the new Phantom travel at speeds up to Mach 3 and the agility and payload capacity it could have achieved with new turbines and fly by wire controls would have been incredible