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The horizontal tails on the F-35 resemble the original tails on the
YF-22. I assume that the F-22 tails were changed to make them stealthier, which would imply that the F-35's tails are unstealthy. I know that the F-35 is supposed to save money by concentrating on being stealthy from the front, but I don't see why it would be expensive to reshape the tails in the manner of the F-22. I wonder if the F-35 exhaust is so unstealthy that changing the tails would be pointless. Are the F-35 tails a detriment to stealth and if so how much? Hard to say precisely, but I have it on good authority that the airplane isn't THAT stealthy. So tweaking the tail seems fruitless, eh? R / John |
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