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Good evening.
"SAMs and radio waves travel at much higher speeds than F-22s do."

They were both faster than F-4s and A-6s too, but they couldn't bring down every one, try as they might and no matter how many SAMs they fired.

You seem determined to disregard the abilities of the Raptor and the state-of-the-art weapons it can deliver. Hopefully we won't find out who is right, but I'm guessing we will.

In another post you mention Gary Powers and, in another you mention the F-117 shot down in bill clinton's war.

It took several missiles to knock down the slow moving U-2 and luck played a part there.

I understand the Nighthawk was flying at a medium to low altitude and relatively slow to boot. I could be wrong, feel free to correct me if I am, but I was under the impression that the Serbs threw up a wall of fire and got lucky, sort of like the Soviets with the U-2.

Fast, nimble, stealthy aircraft with modern electronic countermeasures and smart weapons won't be easy to hit no matter what is fired at them. When the weapons they can deliver are as accurate from as far away as we now know they are, and when the pilots are as good a ours are, the odds are that the defenses used against them won't be very successful or long lived.

Michael Frazier