They dropped the F-22's for the F-35's and the F-22 is still superior in every way IMO.
BTW we are still flying F-14's, F-15's, and F-16's. Which have retrofitted multiple times now. They still haven't managed to replace ol' reliable yet.
I guess the only good thing to come from the F-35 program is the replacement for the Harrier (which is a death trap). That's all I can think of. What a fantastic waste of our money.
The F-22 was the perfect solution for 30 years ago. By the time it came out, it was obsolete for its role. Plus the 1000 hrs of service to 1hr of flight thing makes it useless for anything beyond one time use counter attacks.
You know what the F-22 really excels at though? Getting fucked up by hurricanes because the brainiacs in the air force decided stationing 20 billion dollars worth of planes in an Air Force base on the gulf and then just leaving them there in the path of a cat 5 hurricane was a good idea.
They dropped the F-22's for the F-35's and the F-22 is still superior in every way IMO.
It is not, IMEO.
Civilians think the F-22 is better because they don't know anything. The F-35 is objectively better. It's safer, cheaper, more efficient, and the biggest feather in its cap: the avionics are generationally better, and much of it cannot simply be retrofit into the F-22.
For fuck's sake dude, THE F-22 CANNOT EVEN DIRECT A LASER-GUIDED BOMB.
They dropped the F-22's for the F-35's and the F-22 is still superior in every way IMO.
BTW we are still flying F-14's, F-15's, and F-16's. Which have retrofitted multiple times now. They still haven't managed to replace ol' reliable yet.
I guess the only good thing to come from the F-35 program is the replacement for the Harrier (which is a death trap). That's all I can think of. What a fantastic waste of our money.
The F-22 was the perfect solution for 30 years ago. By the time it came out, it was obsolete for its role. Plus the 1000 hrs of service to 1hr of flight thing makes it useless for anything beyond one time use counter attacks.
You know what the F-22 really excels at though? Getting fucked up by hurricanes because the brainiacs in the air force decided stationing 20 billion dollars worth of planes in an Air Force base on the gulf and then just leaving them there in the path of a cat 5 hurricane was a good idea.
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It is not, IMEO.
Civilians think the F-22 is better because they don't know anything. The F-35 is objectively better. It's safer, cheaper, more efficient, and the biggest feather in its cap: the avionics are generationally better, and much of it cannot simply be retrofit into the F-22.
For fuck's sake dude, THE F-22 CANNOT EVEN DIRECT A LASER-GUIDED BOMB.
Why do you say things that you don't even know? We stopped flying F-14s over a decade ago.
Edit: Oct 2006
https://theaviationist.com/2013/10/04/last-tomcat-flght/
lol OLE RELIABLE!!! The F-14 was held together with fucking duct tape, likely because pilots wouldn't stop pushing the airframe too hard.
Also left out f18s. They're kind of a big deal, certainly more than the F14s that all got shredded.