F-35 pilot: Here's what people don't understand about dogfighting, and how the F-35 excels at it

Lockheed Martin Since 2001, Lockheed Martin and US military planners have been putting together the F-35, a new aircraft that promises to revolutionize aerial combat so thoroughly as to leave it unrecognizable to the general public. Detractors of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have long criticizedthe program astaking too long and costing too much, though overruns commonly occur when developing massive, first-in-class projects like the F-35. But perhaps the most damning criticism of the F-35 came ...