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Depends on "hold their own" definition in that case. And Typhoon is not even a good contester here from western side due to some heavy drawbacks it have, one of main being mechanically scanned radar.As for F-22 - it is good to leave it aside not only because of not being too numerous (cuz it isn't only by US Airforce metric), but because it has in fact very little to offer over mentioned F-35. Yes, better speed characteristics, but they are of more limited usefulness due to weapons release speeds. Radar is not drastically superior (if at all), but everything else is inferior to absent at all. No DAS, no IRST, no integrated ECM. With possible introduction of DIRCM of F-35 gap in avionics with be even bigger. So biggest winning point of F-22 left is close combat, which is quite possible in case of meeting of two LO aircrafts but is not gamechanger per se.
Depends on "hold their own" definition in that case. And Typhoon is not even a good contester here from western side due to some heavy drawbacks it have, one of main being mechanically scanned radar.
As for F-22 - it is good to leave it aside not only because of not being too numerous (cuz it isn't only by US Airforce metric), but because it has in fact very little to offer over mentioned F-35. Yes, better speed characteristics, but they are of more limited usefulness due to weapons release speeds. Radar is not drastically superior (if at all), but everything else is inferior to absent at all. No DAS, no IRST, no integrated ECM. With possible introduction of DIRCM of F-35 gap in avionics with be even bigger. So biggest winning point of F-22 left is close combat, which is quite possible in case of meeting of two LO aircrafts but is not gamechanger per se.
