• PolandIsAStateOfMind
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    2 years ago

    Not really. Yak 38 was highly specialised plane for use by Soviet Navy - intended and remained a niche project.

    While F-35 was supposed to be universal plane for everything.

    Soviet VTOL projects were also met with huge problems, as illustrated by this first working attempts (of 4 proptotypes 1 never flied and 2 crashed), but as you can see Soviets recognized the idea had limited use, instead of hamfisting it like the US.