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

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. Latest; News; Reviews.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Whether the F-35 will be required to dogfight is unclear. With the onset of fifth-generation technology, whether dogfights will continue to be a facet of aviation combat at all is unclear.

"If you were to engage an F-35 in say, a visual dogfight capability," US Air Force Brig. Gen. Scott Pleus began, "the capabilities of the F-35 are absolutely eye-watering compared to a fourth ...

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 ...