It is indeed less of a dedicated fighter and more of a jack-of-all trades like the old Phantom II was[0]. And suffers from the same problem of being shoehorned

It is indeed less of a dedicated fighter and more of a jack-of-all trades like the old Phantom II was[0]. And suffers from the same problem of being shoehorned into the F-for-fighter series. EFA-35 or even M-35 for multmission would have been more accurate. [0] in fact the weight, size, thrust and payload are all on-par with the F-4E version except the back-seater has been replaced by computers.