FACT: The F-35 Stealth Fighter And F-4 Phantom Have A Lot In Common

[rangerrebew]

February 6, 2020

FACT: The F-35 Stealth Fighter And F-4 Phantom Have A Lot In Common

In how the critics talk about them.
by Sebastien Roblin

Key point: A small history lesson sheds light on America's $1 Trillion-dollar stealth fighter.
 

Conventional wisdom can offer contradictory insights. Are we doomed to forget the past, and thus condemned to repeat it? Or are we always preparing to fight the last war while failing to think ahead about how the next one will be fought?

From the standpoint of military strategy, it is at once important to learn from operational experience, without blindly assuming that future conflicts will playout in the same fashion. This brings us to the controversial, thousands of which are set to enter wide-scale service in the three warfighting branches of the U.S. military and at least nine other countries.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/fact-f-35-stealth-fighter-and-f-4-phantom-have-lot-common-120891

[PeteS in CA]

Two major differences the article ignores: the F-35 is far harder for opposing fighters to detect and track; modern air-air missiles are far better than mid-late 1960s air-air missiles.