Originally Posted by oldm8
F-111 would piss all over F22 if we could just devote some cash to making it stealthy and slap on an AESA. With a vectored thrust kit fitted it would be unstoppable
Why stop there, there's no reason why you couldn't mate the V-STOL technology of the F-35 to the existing engines.
An upgraded
single donk could easily make the pig lift off vertically.
With today's engine technology and a V-STOL kit, the upgraded VTOL pig could lift a full warload vertically out of hidden, unprepared surfaces all over the NT and deliver it to the bros
to the north.
Get some, get some....