I'll leave you to ad hominem to your heart's desire, C2. Odd that the Pacific Vision presentation (90-slide pack) cited a lack of turn/climb/runaway as a damning disadvantage in 2008 but the same author says it isn't the characteristic set required of the future, in the much more accurate (in my mil pilot opinion) trends analysis. I know that Stillion authored both. One set of his attributed analysis contradicts the other and but agree with most within his trends paper - very insightful in places. Stealth is a must; SA is king. Both increase weapon system lethality and are waaaayy more significant than manoeuvre, climb etc. The trends paper backs this thinking up.
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