Actually I'm not sure if USA is going in the right
direction....the F-22/35 are huge-ass planes packed with all the
best equipment that is overkill.
Its just gonna make the planes friggin expensive and unsexy
I think they are making exactly the same mistakes they made
during the vietnam war era, when they thought the merge and close
in dogfighting to be obsolete, and that missiles and electronics
would determine everything ......
so while the russians focused on super maneuverability, thrust
vectoring etc, the west still try to squeeze life out of 70s era
platforms by banking on electronics upgrades ...
I think it's telling too ... that while the west focused on
radar technologies like AESA, the russians went with physical
truths and developed IRSTs that could search, track and shoot, all
without emitting a single tell tale beam of radar energy ....
