was just about to post a reply stating how much of a waste of space a gun is in this era of warfare. Gone are the days of dog fights over the channel or even imaginary dog fights against MIG 23s over East Germany. However FOBOTSCO has a point, guns may useful to shoot down renegade airliners, ....but not in a combat arena.
If you want to show off about a new aircraft you should be boasting about how it shot down another aircraft from 40 or 50 miles (or more!!) having seen it on a radar without it seeing you, and therefore not one high 'g' manoeuvre involved. Alternatively boast about its ability to drop bombs whilst denying SURFACE to air missiles the ability to engage (how many aircraft have been lost in the last 10 years in air to air battles vice surface to air??).
No longer should we be impressed by one aircrafts ability to out turn another at low level, come out of the cold war and get real.