Two pilots demonstrated the differences between the fighter jets, referencing dogfight footage and using quickly made paper airplanes.

meaning that the F-35 “can’t turn or climb fast enough to hit an enemy plane during a dogfight or to dodge the enemy’s own gunfire,” War is Boring reported. The F-35 pilot’s report was ...

The F-35 performed so dismally in a dogfight, that the test pilot remarked that the it had pretty much no place fighting other aircraft within visual range. And it's even worse than a mere ...

A new report from a test pilot really lays it bare: The F-35 can't dogfight. The issues are laid out in a previously private but now non-classified report obtained by War Is Boring. In it ...

The combat maneuvers were the first time the F-35 was put into a dogfight-like situation. “When we did the first dogfight in January, they said, ‘you have no limits.' It was loads monitoring ...

The F-35 is well known for its advanced computing, sensor fusion, long-range targeting accuracy, threat data library, and drone-like surveillance capacity. But can it dogfight? This seemingly ...

WASHINGTON — According to some reports, the F-35 — America's priciest weapons system — doesn't excel at dogfighting. Fortunately, the fifth-generation stealth aircraft, designed to be the ...

The U.S. Air Force’s new F-35 struggled in a dogfight with the plane it is supposed to replace. A five-page report obtained by Medium’s War is Boring columnist said a test pilot was at a ...

The idea is to enable F-35 pilots to see and destroy enemies in the air well in advance of a potential dogfight scenario. This can be explained in terms of a well-known Air Force strategic concept ...

This is especially true since the pilot can't even see over their shoulder in some circumstances, at least according to the damning dogfight report and the F-35's clear lack of reward visibility.

was based on an internal five-page brief in which an F-35 test pilot wrote a scathing criticism of the next-generation jet’s abilities in a January dogfight with an F-16, one of the planes the F ...