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Originally Posted by theking
...which is the lastest US fighter aircraft. In training exercises the F-22 kills F-15's (our second best fighter and the one which the F-22 is replacing) at the rate of 8-1. The claim is that no other country has a fighter that can begin to compare to the F-22. The F-22 was designed so that it can be easily updated as R&D comes up with newer and better technology. We currently only have 27 F-22's in service. It is intended to carry us through most of the 21st century.
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Ok, I hate your fucking guts, and I think you're a complete douchebag, but if what you're trying to say is that the united states has one amazing fucking machine in the F-22 Raptor. I'm going to agree. I think I may have watched the same documentary. Is it the one where they are interviewing the F-22 pilots coming back from a training mission in Alaska after they just pwned the fuck out of a whole squadron of f-15s? I think I remember them saying one f-22 raptor against 5 mig's isn't even a fair fight. It acts as a fighter and a bomber. That is one incredible piece of machinery.
Word among a lot of aviation folk is that the new MIG 1.42 is a superior plane as far as aviation and flight is concerned, but Russia's weapons system's are still nowhere near that of America's. So in other words, the MIG 1.4 will outfly the F-22 Raptor any day, but the Raptor will punch that fucker into a million pieces with a long range missile before the MIG even thinks of getting into striking distance. I'm particularly impressed by the on board AI and how the F-22's relay information between one another in order to map the battlefield between their group. It really is an incredible incredible fucking machine...