[Nowhere Man]

Yeah, maybe it is silly to compare a Sopwith Camel to an F-22, although maybe there is always room for luck. At the bare minimum, you'd probably need at least a MiG-15/17, Sabre Jet or a CF-100 Canuck to engage with any hope. Myself, I woulds not go any less than at least an F-4 but an F-14 is more like it.

I think we get too cocky with all this high tech, many times, the more complicated the plane (or whatever is in question), the more Achilles heels you may have. Then again, like I said in the beginning, there could be that Albanian, Cuban or North Korean pilot that jumps you in a MiG-17 and it could be it. Electronics can fail, you need to maintain it and if you run out of parts, the F-22 becomes useful only as a static display for children to crawl into at the local park. Air technology for manned aircraft has pretty much plateaued for the most part say form 1960/65 onward much like firearms tech did in the early 20th Century with the exception of plastics. I could be wrong in the eyes of some but that's generally my take.

[LevinFan]

As it stands, an F22 pilot has to face several gen4 opponents to get a workout. F22 isn’t magic, but it is a superior craft that only the foolish take lightly.
Information technology has been the
biggest boon for aviation since the 60s and 70s. Now they have a heads up helmet, with intigrated tracking and ID data. If one plane sees a missile, all of them see it, track it, and know who it is engaging. And it is done with a simple icon on the helmet display.

And rumor has it their newest weapon is a radar almost impossible to detect, and able to pulse as an emp weapon to jam or fry an incoming missile.