Comments on: Raptor … or Turkey? (Part One)

By: Picard578

Picard578 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:12:52 +0000

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By: Šicard578

Šicard578 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:09:25 +0000

But AF will never be able to replace F15 with F22 on 1-for-1 basis.

By: Picard578

Picard578 — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:07:53 +0000

Then give it some F16’s for escort.

F22 is better than legacy fighters for some roles… like supressing SAM’s. But in air-to-air it will get killed due to simple math.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:18:28 +0000

The second comment suggests canceling (eg) 6 F22s and using the money to buy 100 A10s, and asks “Which would the guys on the ground like better?”

If the guys on the ground are intelligent, they’ll know this is a false choice. Those 6 F22s will be canceled, and the money will be spent on a bridge to nowhere.

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By: hackdot

hackdot — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:18:43 +0000

yesterday there was a top 10 figther planes and there were ranked by 5 catergorys
raptor was 10 deu to the cost
2 raptors can take down 12–16 f-15 (tested in a combat war game or w.e)
it cost alot but when u need to control the air it could be worth it
and it is ture that the USA is spending to much on war and defence but it will be worth it one day if we every get attacked

By: Mark Day

Mark Day — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:47:30 +0000

The Raptor is undoubtedly a great plane
for air to air combat. The problem is we
can only afford 186 of them. That is a
ridiculously small number. The cost of
this aircraft is out of control.
Why do we need the Raptor? The Chinese
“threat”? The Chinese are not going to
defeat us in a military confrontation.
Why should they bother? We are bankrupting ourselves.
The US spends more on weapons than the
rest of the world combined. Yet we are
not buying security with all that money,
on the contrary we are hollowing out our
economy. The Iranians and Chinese are not
the threat. Our own impending bankruptcy
is.
The Raptor is symptomatic of our out of
control spending on the military.

By: unknown

unknown — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:53:58 +0000

The f-22 can take out an A-10 before the A-10 can even see on it’s radar, well beyound 30 miles(if it can see it when it gets in range) and for the F-15 lets say this about it. One F-22 took on 5 f-15 on an air force war game and took each one out (that is locked on) before it could be locked on to. And for the facts its hard to take something down when its stealth which means it hard to be picked up on radar or be seen. And further more A-10 needs to much maintenance. And if you don’t know as do everything does, as planes get older they fall apart more and more until they break down. Which the 16s 15s and A-10s are from the 80’s and are aging aircraft and will need to retire. Anyway you people know nothing about the F-22 lot of the facts about it are classified and for material graphite(aka carbon fiber) and other composites are tougher than steel, Titanium and also stronger and don’t rust like your loved planes do. And another fact the Raptor uses less full do to no after burner which if you don’t know fighters go threw a lot. Don’t get me wrong I do like all those aircraft but its hard to compete with mordern technology. And for price I will say this if you really know what is expensive the B-2 bomber which is almost 1.4 billion thats with a B each and they hardly ever get used. Now do the math people.