TheMightyBender
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That is not how fighter design works. You are proposing that we first build a motor bike and then turn it into a car by adding more wheels.Turn this thing into a 4.5++ Jet. At least Block 1.
Like the South Koreans are doing it with the KF-X.
Block 1 with stealth elements and inferior engines. Future Blocks will include internal bays and superior engines. Order the best possible engine from Russia and develop your own NG Engine over the next 10-15 years. Block 3/4 can then be equiped with internal bays, more stealth elements and engines that actually can take advantage of it. If European countries are willing to work order engines from the UK.
This Jet could replace parts of our Air Force already in the mid 2020s and future Blocks would be ready with Turkish engines in the beginning or mid 2030s.
We don't need the best available jets.
We can cover every single operation theatre with our future Air Defence Systems (S-400, Hisar U, Hisar-O, Hisar-A, Korkut, Siper, TF-2000) be it the black sea, Balkans, Aegan Sea, Thracia, Caucus, Middle East, Mediterranean. We will always have the superior hand in the air because of that, no jet in the world will able to compensate for that from any country around us. Not Greece, not Russia, not Iraq, not Iran, not Israel, not Syria, not SA, no one.
And I think the Air Force nows this, that is why they aren't bothered with the threats from the US.
And are you seriously saying we will have air superiority when over Russia? Also, Israel has F-35s and Greece and SA will get them within a decade. You are seriously underestimating the most advanced fighter jet in the world.