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I hate to be the downer here, but we said the exact same thing with the F4. And then the F4 got hosed over Vietnam. So we went back to having a gun onboard.

Things are appreciably different this time, yes. But how different, and how that will shake out in the fog of war, the friction [0], is another thing to be seen.

All I guess I'm saying is that caution is warranted before we declare the dog fight dead, again.

[0] Clausewitz, drink!




The VTOL and the Navy versions of the F-35 lack a gun.




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