everyone has an opinion and presenting all these googled facts that they know nothing about!!! have you been to lockheed, I have, Have you seen an f35 up close and seen the cockpit, I have. My father was an airline engineer from the US navy for 40 years and all these bozos get on these defense talk sites and screw up so much information. first and foremost the jet you are all referring to the F35 Joint strike fighter which originally was the x35 top secret plane for about 30 years has been under wraps with skunk works before some of you were born! secondly none of you have a damn clue what in the hell you are talking about. this aircraft does not use any radar cross section that any of you are talking about! it does not even use something called a radar cross section. its skin has absorb able material that is still top secret that even my dad could not get info on nor will the Lockheed company ever talk about truthfully. The engines on both planes are not at all correct. what has been published about the planes are incorrect. its not lies they just don't tell you everything. both planes can fully dominate any plane in existence not because of its stealth only but because both planes have computer run full situational awareness avionics. which means its like a windows 7 PC going up against xp with 100 gigs of ram. what it means for an f35 pilot is that if a dogfight breaks out and his plane is locked targeted by another aircraft. the plane goes into a mode to tell the pilot exactly what he needs to do and chooses weapons and takes evasive action all within milliseconds. this whole business about Russia and China competing against Lockheed martin is a joke. The f22 is so advanced that if the plane wanted to outrun a Russian su or mig they would only feel sense that the plane had left before it destroyed them. get a grip people and realize we in the us have been so far advanced in jets over Russia --they are still in the 60's. its like a lamborghini going up against a mustang. its a joke!! quit watching the movies people. My father flew planes and he is 90 and he says there is not one plane in the sky that could match an f18 super-hornet let alone an f35 or f22.