Seeing as the F-22 program in part helped fund my paycheck at my previous emplyer, I loved it. It is an amazing plane. However, the question arises: in today’s world what is it meant to fight? When our older equipemnt is still generations ahead of everyone else–and we have proven without a shadow of doubt nobody can survive a classic pitched battle with our forces, why invest so much in a waepons race we have won? These were built for the last war–our current foes have realized they cannot win that war, so are changing the game; we need to adapt to that, and the F-22–excellent as it is–is not really the answer.
Seeing as the F-22 program in part helped fund my paycheck at my previous emplyer, I loved it. It is an amazing plane. However, the question arises: in today’s world what is it meant to fight? When our older equipemnt is still generations ahead of everyone else–and we have proven without a shadow of doubt nobody can survive a classic pitched battle with our forces, why invest so much in a waepons race we have won? These were built for the last war–our current foes have realized they cannot win that war, so are changing the game; we need to adapt to that, and the F-22–excellent as it is–is not really the answer.