Always a trade off with any modern fighter design you want it to have high agility which means a very unstable platform that requires fly-by-wire to fly.If the computers fail or if an important control surface fails sometimes the computers even cant keep up and you have a 30 million dollar stone.
It does show you just how much a fly-by-wire system is doing when you look at an airframe so unstable that it requires FBY.Crazy to think that in the F-16 and F-22 to name just a few that the stick does not connect to any control surface but rather a series of computers that constantly receive inputs as to the conditions and also receive inputs from the pilot which it must then correlate.
Now an A-10 you'd need to rip an entire wing off in order for her to drop.Of course the Hog is not exactly a good dog fighter.
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