A couple of F-35 questions from someone who's been out of the loop for a while:
1. The infamous 4.6g sustained turn performance - at what altitude and AUW is this? Doesn't mean a whole lot to me without knowing that.
2. The repeated claims by one or two posters here that the F-105 is superior in every conceivable metric - is there any data to back this up? Top speed is a no-brainer, but what of things like climb rate and turn performance? Sure, the F-35 is no F-22 or Typhoon, but I'm struggling to believe that its performance is so comprehensively inferior to the 105.