In this way, it is the combination of technologies—really the integration, coordination, and synchronization of the technologies—that contributes to an overall warfighting capability. This means that individual comparisons of aircraft can be interesting, but they only tell part of the story and—if not considered within the operational context in which the aircraft will be employed—can even be misleading. The real comparison should be assessing the comparative offensive and defensive employment of systems for the United States and potential adversaries to gain an understanding of which side has
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