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Old 30th May 2013, 11:44
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Cold Collation - It doesn't "melt" ships, but the combo of blast and heat/cool cycles raises fatigue issues. As for the back-end IR signature, there are things you can do with a round nozzle in military power, but basically not very much. If you're serious you go 2D, but the weight penalty eats your lunch. Just as well that the F-35 is faster than any known advers... wait, what?

I hope nobody spent too much time following SpazSinbad's link. I've skimmed that a couple of times and can't figure out the guy's point. But in the country of the blind... the fankiddies think he's an authority of some kind.

Nobody should be surprised about the F-35's kinematics. The goal was always "comparable to legacy" which always raised doubts - if you were an F-16 at the high speed end and an F-18 at low speed, that was good; the other way around, not so much. And of course many slow-witted people have been suckered by the "fifth-generation" flimflam, which carries the subliminal message that all "Gen4" aircraft are the same.
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