Via Military Times: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh dons a Captain America mask during his address to the Air Force Association’s Annual Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md., on Tuesday, September 17, 2013. Pointing to the ‘A,’ he said, “A is for Airpower.” (Mike Morones/Staff)
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All the capabilities you describe along with low observability would allow the F-35 from any of the three services to survive nearly endlessly over Syria, Iran, or the Taiwan Straits with aerial refueling dropping small diameter bomb I and II from altitude, lobbed miles from the tank column.
The A-10C would survive seconds to minutes in the same radar air defense environments and with air-to-air fighters as simple as the MiG 21 and F-4.
If we really wish to criticize the USAF for single-mission aircraft, look at the long range bomber they propose that also could be an F-22/F-35 aerial refueler, and lift aircraft able to drop airborne special mission units and their supplies. A C-130 and C-17 with airborne troops and even a KC-46 could not get very close to any of the states/locales listed above without serious risk let alone overfly them initially.