Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Speed used to be life, but now with thrust vectoring and massive amounts of power, it has become an ability of getting your nose to point the direction you want on a moments notice. Speed used to translate into rate of rate of turn in degrees per second to get on an enemies tail, but now that is not so neccesary anymore since you can simply just point the nose. Couple this aircraft to the Aim-9X with 120 degrees of high off boresight capability (helmet cued to kill where the pilot looks), and how can you fight and even begin to win against it? You can't! His nose is on you and a missile is in the air long before you can react.

One manuver that is more impressive than most any other is the flat spin where he is faliing straight down, but just swiviling the nose in 360 degrees of rotation - pointing it anywhere he wants. This aircraft can do whatever it wants. How can you follow something like that?

This is simply its dogfight capability. This is not touching on its apeture scan radar, super cruise capability, stealth capability, nothing.

The only way to possibly even see this thing on radar is from the side, and that is going to be difficult. Coming or going, no one can see it.

-S