Originally Posted by KenV
But we are not yet able to build a 5th Gen aircraft stellar in both air-to-air and air-to-ground performance.
Fair enough, but how does that help, say, Danemark in light of recent Russian threats?
Why would they need a stealth strike aircraft, when they face a tac.nuclear threat?
Apparently, there's a strategic discrepancy between US and some other JSF partners' needs, which shouldn't be there according to the picture that has been painted over the years, where JSF was supposed to equalize or outclass partners' F16s in all aspects, including flight performance and cost.
As a consequence, Danemark is facing a smaller fleet of slower and costlier planes to protect its borders.
This doesn't make any sense and is questionable whether the time such a fleet can buy until the cavalry arrives is long enough to be a viable strategy, because whereas the F35 can hide in the EM cluster**** of a moder EW war, an AB, or a dockyard, or a city can't.
...or the US can keep an F22 wing in Danemark, but then there's Norway and Netherlands and ...