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To: thackney
The article does state that hey were F-15c's. Interesting that other articles (sloppy) seem to indicate F-22's. I do believe that there was one F-22 kill in Alaska when the pilot got cocky and popped up too high and a 15 got a bead on him.
140 posted on 03/16/2007 7:35:31 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Southeast Asian War Games, Second place.)
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To: mad_as_he$$; Blueflag
The article does state that hey were F-15c's.

Can you show me where that is? The only thing I found was:

Lt. Col. Dirk Smith, commander of the 94th FS, said that these aircraft losses stemmed from the aggressiveness of pilots, which was a good thing.

“They wanted to fly to the merge, they wanted to show” what such a fighter package can do “when you’re highly outnumbered.” Such exercises are “the perfect place to learn that kind of lesson ... so that, when it comes to real bullets flying, they’ve learned that.”

From the link:
http://www.afa.org/magazine/feb2007/0207raptor.html

That was following my previous excerpt. All this discussion was about the F-22's, not a different aircraft.

142 posted on 03/16/2007 7:49:50 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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