EUROPE TO DEV THEIR OWN 6TH GEN FIGHTER JET, LOCKHEEB MARTIN SEETHING

Eurofags can't do anything right. This will be a miserable failure, but then again the entire EU can be described like that.

Nice, I'm glad we still invest in the military but given the deadline I wouldn't make much fuss about it

prob with F-35 was trying to force an air-frame to do too many diff things.

just make a carrier based jet, then the USAF will have STOL and rough airfield ready jet.

Forget baked in VTOL. Use rail and/or RATO for zero-launch, and use RATO and/or parachute for rare zero-landing (see C-130 Iranian Rescue…that was done in few WEEKS by grunts just strapping on rockets without today's advanced CAD etc).

If the USAF fags want to "improve" theirs with lighter landing gear like they did with F-4 and A-7 I guess they could…but they should be told to make all jets "damaged runway capable" meaning carrier style landing including tail-hook, and short take-off including mobile ground sitting catapult.>>13423207

they seem good at joint venture aircrafts. Sepcat Jag, Tornado swing-wing, Euro-fighter, some helicopters, AIRBUS

PS-note the long history of USN carrier based aircraft being adopted by USAF, but much less the other way around (F-86 only one I can think of, and it was not a major USN jet)

woops, I guess the F-18 was originally a USAF jet that lost to F-16

Let them fall. Europe has been running on fumes for 2 centuries. Any culture not interested in fighting for its own survival is a culture that should die.