Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5230476-20131109070121/@comment-74.74.127.152-20140515194528

If one were to strengthen the airframe in that aria then that problem could be negated. the FSW provides higher menuverability in low speed and stall speeds as the stall becomes a centerline stall as opposed to a wingtip stall. yes the SU-47 and X-29 are experimental, and while the X-29 will never see servace, the Berkut could in the future, and based on the fact that they can handle the stress of high-speed flight, I'd say that missiles wouidn't cause a huge problem as the whole 'wings breaking up issue' was solved with more advanced building materials, of which most all gen 4 fighters are made of anyway. HOWEVER you have YAW istability which can cause a dutch roll and that isn't fun. While the X-29 isn't a fighter, one of it's premise would be quite effective due to it's high menuverability, but I feel it would be limited to the air superiority role as it's FSW would make ground attack impractical due to a lack of stability.