On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:32:31 PM UTC-4, jon_banquer wrote:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the...-a-garbage-can

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To put it bluntly, the Pentagon's new trillion-dollar fighter jet
doesn't go a fast as it should, doesn't turn as sharp as it should and
doesn't handle as nimbly as it should. This is bad news, explains Wired's
David Axe. For the pilots who will eventually take the F-35 into
combat, the JSF's reduced performance means they might not be able
to outfly and outfight the latest Russian- and Chinese-made fighters,"
writes Axe.

Axe is very, very wrong, there.

Compared to the rest of the world, China has very little adverse military aviation experience.

Secondly, compared to NATO countries, top lawyers and businessmen in places like Russia, China, India, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have historically used their police forces to beat-up, harass and jail scientists (and their families) working to improve their militaries. So these countries' Air Force technologies can nor have never really been anything but stolen or imported from other places and so no, they can't keep up with NATO Air Force technology regardless of what the US fields.