While this is an amazing aircraft it is not a 5th gen bird. The Russians are working on a 5th gen but the only two currently flying 5th gens are the F-22 and F-35. Again, not putting this plane down in any way. If you have to give a title 4.5 generation is more apt.

I predict that the "intelligent" integrated computer will behave either like the Knight Rider or like the Microsoft Word help paperclip.

We'll know it's combat ready when it's punched a crater into the runway at the Paris Airshow.

Also, I hope it does better than its hanger-queen predecessor, the Mig-29 -- one hour of flight for 10 hours of hanger time.

Hm...most of what is presented in this video is misleading, and some of it is an outright falsehood.

>> ^Dash:
Hm...most of what is presented in this video is misleading, and some of it is an outright falsehood.


You've got to consider the source for a minute. When the Stealth Bomber was developed, the public had no idea it existed until it was running missions in Desert Storm. If we hadn't had that war, we wouldn't have known until we did have one (Afghanistan?). During the Reagan administration, one tactic against communism was to convince them we had such amazingly advanced weapons that they would go bankrupt trying to keep up (see "Star Wars"). This included orbital lasers that would make us impervious to ICBM's, etc.

So, being as open as they are about this, which of these two tactics of military intelligence does this resemble?