In 2015, the Aviation world was shocked when an old F-16 viper shot down a brand new stealth F-35 lightning 2. It was January 14th of 2015, when our beloved deadly viper meets its replacement, the pricey F-35. According to report, Not in a single dogfight the F-35 was able to defend itself against the attacks from the F-16, and it was also not able to turn its attack into a kill, which is an astonishing feat for the middle aged F-16 fighting falcon. But after more than 5 years, it was found that the dogfight was unfair! It was revealed that the F-35 was in its early stages at the time, and lightening pilots were still learning how to fly it, and as it was still a brand new jet in 2015, pilots had no time to develop tactics to perform dogfights, and the F-35s flying today are fully operational with the technologies that were not there in the jet in 2015. One powerful tech piece that was missing at the time was an advanced software, that enables pilot to look at a target, lock him, and launch weapons by just pointing the helmet, regardless of which direction the stealth fighter is flying.

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