[ditty_news_ticker id=”25027″]In preparing to sit down with Pleus, I recalled comments he made at the Air Force Association’s annual conference in September. “In terms of lethality and survivability, the aircraft is absolutely head and shoulders above our legacy fleet of fighters currently fielded,” he said at the time. “This is an absolutely formidable airplane, and one our adversaries should fear.”
So I followed up, asking him, as one of the few people who have flown both an F-16 and an F-35, what’s it like to engage an F-35?
“You never knew I was there,” he said with a smile. “You literally would never know I’m there. I flew the F-35 against other fourth-generation platforms and we killed them and they never even saw us.”
“If you were to engage an F-35 in say, a visual dogfight capability,” he added, “the capabilities of the F-35 are absolutely eye-watering compared to a fourth-generation fighter.” – READ MORE
