F-35 v 1950s Jets

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Who said DCS lacked direction 

 

http://breakingdefense.com/2016/07/have-jet-will-travel-training-f-35s-vs-1950s-fighters/

 

 

ATAC has about 30 pilots: all ex-military, half of them former squadron or wing commanders, and exactly one of them (just hired) a woman. They fly a fleet of 26 aircraft: six supersonic Israeli Kfirs; 16 subsonic British Hawker Hunters; and four Czech L-39 Albatros trainers. The Czech planes are used only for ground-attack training, not dogfights. The Israeli Kfirs were built in the 1980s to a 1970s design, and they form ATAC’s high-end, high-speed attack force. The Hawker Hunters are the workhorses — and they’re old: ATAC’s aircraft were built in the early 1970s, at the very end of the production run, but the design first flew in 1951.