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Originally Posted by Zulu29
Would what the Russians and Chinese are researching knockout data links between manned fighters as well? You've done a good job selling the F35, just a shame it's coming in so over budget. Do you think 65 us enough?
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I'm not really trying to hard sell the F-35, I think that people need to realize that the vision of this plane is fantastic.
But the well has been soured on it, and part of that is misunderstandings between the problems with the different variants as well.
With the f-35 I'm pretty convinced that 65 is enough becuase it has a high kill multiplier and is such an effective multi role plane.
If we go with a 4th generation fighter, I feel that we would need to follow the same model as the original CF-18 fleet, which is about 130 jets because the attrition could be higher and you need more to provide the same effective cover as the data superior F-35.