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Originally Posted by Baron von Kriterium
They need the new fighter because the F35 can't carry this:
This is their new ship-killer missile.
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Sounds like you've been watching plenty of RT and Pravda, I don't think you're an expert because the F-35 can do targeting for missiles fired from any connected platform - which includes other F-35s, F-22, F-15, F-16, F-18, B-52, B-2, B-1, and missiles launched from land and sea platforms. Russia can't do this. And this is why the F-35's able to achieve a kill to death ratio of 21-1 in Red Flag exercises. It doesn't matter what the payload size is for the F-35 - that's just a russian propaganda talking point. You're just building a myth that russia's some kind of unstoppable military might, the US has ship killer missiles too, as well as stealth missiles, and pretty much caught up with hypersonic missiles too. The truth is though, that as soon as one fires on the other, the nukes come out, so it's all null. Now if either side could develop a perfect air defense system - then the other side will have real problems.