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I'm sure those expert pilots can make a good argument, but I'd have to imagine the F-35A is still significantly more agile than the F-35C although the later might be better at a purely sustained turn. But I'd expect the F-35C to indeed have greater range and the ability to loiter in the area for longer, which for the last several sort of wars we've been in has been the more useful capability. Trying to predict how things will work in the next war though is always risky business.It seems to me like the USN tried to get a poor-man's A-12 out of the JSF by going with the larger wings and cramming as much extra fuel in it as they could. People will say they had to adapt it to CATOBAR use, which is true of course, but I wonder how much of the larger wing and other flight surfaces was strictly necessary for that.
I'm sure those expert pilots can make a good argument, but I'd have to imagine the F-35A is still significantly more agile than the F-35C although the later might be better at a purely sustained turn. But I'd expect the F-35C to indeed have greater range and the ability to loiter in the area for longer, which for the last several sort of wars we've been in has been the more useful capability. Trying to predict how things will work in the next war though is always risky business.
It seems to me like the USN tried to get a poor-man's A-12 out of the JSF by going with the larger wings and cramming as much extra fuel in it as they could. People will say they had to adapt it to CATOBAR use, which is true of course, but I wonder how much of the larger wing and other flight surfaces was strictly necessary for that.
