[Rokke]

"Unfortunately, the F-35 doesn't quite have the F-22s high speed intercept capability, although the AMRAAM air-to-air missile makes high speed intercepts almost moot, nowadays."

Yes, and yes.

[CasearianDaoist]

Yes but the f35 does not have the power to support the avionics and radar of the F22 thereby limiting its range. The F22 early production models are great and are exceeding the specs. I don't think that it is the same case as the Comanche. With the EU pushing the Euro fighter and The Russians pushing their export market we are going to go up against birds that outclass the F35 or the F15. This business about it being a "Cold war platform" is just the spin from those usual corners that seek to weaken us. Leader edge fighters will be out there. One of the reasons that it took so long is that the Clinton administration sat on it for so long in the 90s. The problem with the Commache was that they took a simple idea and then expanded it into a sort of rotary fighter plane concept, that and the original specs were rather optimistic for the technology of the time. The F22 if a sound long term investment for the next 40 years or so. The Comanche would be too if it lived up to its hype.