1. Ten guys with clubs will win out over one man with nine bullets.
2. If we are flying to defend Taiwan, why aren’t the Taiwanese airfields considered friendly to land at? Too many SRBM hits already? Perhaps.
3. The F-22s should fire their AMRAAMs well before they themselves can be engaged. Then with super-cruise, they should be able to RTB without being engaged.
4. You can’t defend Taiwanese airspace with six-aircraft, no matter how good they are. Getting back to #1, if the enemy brings more aircraft than you have missiles it is impossible to stop him.
5. When the first ten SU-27s explode and the rest still don’t have a lock on the F-22s, they may likely turn tail and head home. Unless of course we keep publishing that we will only send six F-22s.
“1. Ten guys with clubs will win out over one man with nine bullets.”
Put another way, quantity has a quality all of its own. That said, it’s a little difficult to motivate ten guys when they know that only one of them will walk away from the fight...who goes first?