Worse, the F-22 is so expensive that it is forcing us to retire vast numbers of experienced F-14, F-15, and F-16 pilots.
You are fighting the last century's wars in your head still.
Future fighters have to be better than current civilian technology. Flying slower and lower than civilian aircraft, and paying a billion dollars more per copy for that priviledge in the meantime, is not the path towards air domination.
If stealth alone is the answer, then we've already got the F-117 and B-2...but current civilian aircraft can already fly over and past them as if they were standing still. Ditto for the F-22, expensive as it is.
Frankly, what the F-22 offers is either redundant (e.g. stealth by the F-117 and B-2) or obsolete (e.g. its speed).
You didn't answer my questions. Please do.
I saw little in the Little Rocket to get excited about. How long was it in the air a couple of minutes?