I know that feeling all too well . I was at the conference tournament last year when fucking Tulane hit a buzzer beater 3 to beat us in the first round . It ' s not fun . I hope the rest of your season goes well ! <| sep |> I think they meant to Thanksgiving gamesbut for this Sunday I love that prediction . I ' ve got a good feeling he comes back strong too . <| sep |> People don ' t dogfight anymore , it ' s all stealth . It ' s all about who can David Blaine a missle out of your butthole than dancing with another plane in the air . But yes , in the unlikely event it were caught out in visual range of a squad of F 16 ' s , the F 35 would probably get shot down . An F 22 on the other hand would probably run circles around them before slicing through them . Then again , the F 35 was never meant to be an air superiority fighter , more of a bomber with limited air to air defenses . The STOVL version isn ' t very maneuverable in STOVL mode , and the internal bays are smaller than the other 2 variants . Limiting it ' s armaments , so maybe it ' s good for limited ground support air strikes , but it can ' t really loiter like the AH 64 gunship can .