Originally Posted by
Backwards PLT
If you did 2 v 2 A-A F-35 v F-16/Rafale/Typhoon/F-18 in a permissive RoE environment I suspect the Kill:loss would be about 50:0. In a less permissive RoE environment the legacy types will probably get a few kills so maybe 20:1?
Hmmm, given the fact that in mock combat things haven't always gone x:0 for the much more capable and stealthy F-22, people throwing around (purely hypothetical - F-35 is still pretty much a paper plane wrt combat performance) figures like these make me scratch my head: LM spokes person or over- enthusiastic fan?