An F-35 Pilot Explains How The Stealth Fighter Psychologically Wrecks The Enemy

Yes, would love to see. BLOS ROE or visual ID required? A BLOS fight might be close, but once they're in VID range, the Raptor wins every time against the Super Guppy.

Col Joseph Lenertz - I think that would be the interesting part of the fight, though. Seeing which craft is more capable, at what range, and whether they can close the distance before being knocked out. Heck, even whether or not they would be able to operate against each other at BLOS, they might have to close to visual in order to engage. Meaning that you're talking about EWP being right out the window, and you're back to WWI jousting... just, you know, with much more powerful sky horses.

I'm sort of chuckling at myself over that one. I can see the caption now, "The Most Expensive Sopwith Camel in History."

Col Joseph Lenertz - Probably, but need to know what environment aircraft are flying in. I remember many Red Flag sorties flying FB-111 where at altitude F-15s cleaned our clock but if they tried to engage at low altitude we left them in a cloud of dust. ROE at RF prevented rapid descent which was our standard defense when fighters encountered, so we let F-15s play with us at altitude and we played with them in our low level element. Bottom line, both impressed with other at debriefing.

Yes, ROE drives a lot of the nature of the fight. To my knowledge, we have not authorized BLOS single-source engagement ROE in any real world environment to date. That would need to change in a MTC with a near-peer if we hope to have a chance.