I don't enought to know just how good the F-22 is, but I do know that just being technically superior is not enough, if you are on the short end of long odds for a long time. The Germans produced some very fine weapons in WWII. The Panzer VI (Tiger) totally outclassed the Sherman, and routiunely knocked them out at a 5 or 6 to 1 ratio. But the Sherman had been specifically designed to be easy to mass produce, and the US Army could afford to trade 6 Shermans for a Tiger, and replace their losses faster than the German Army.
The list goes on. German cruisers and battleships were state of the art, with perhaps the best armor, damage control, and gunnery control systems in the world, but the British Navy shrugged off their losses when they fought, and sank, or chased into port, the German surface fleet.
The ME-209 was a superior fighter to the Mustang and Spitfire, but it was swept from the skies.
I'm more than a little concerned that in any war with China, our small number of F-22s would prove to be too few, whether they are shot down in air-to-air combat, taken out on the ground by missle attacks, or saboatged by a fuel addative.
“German cruisers and battleships were state of the art, with perhaps the best armor, damage control, and gunnery control systems in the world, but the British Navy shrugged off their losses when they fought, and sank, or chased into port, the German surface fleet”
Was it the Graf Spee that was sunk by a torpedo launched from a WW-1 era bi-plane?
“I don’t enought to know just how good the F-22 is, but I do know that just being technically superior is not enough, if you are on the short end of long odds for a long time. The Germans produced some very fine weapons in WWII. The Panzer VI (Tiger) totally outclassed the Sherman, and routiunely knocked them out at a 5 or 6 to 1 ratio. But the Sherman had been specifically designed to be easy to mass produce, and the US Army could afford to trade 6 Shermans for a Tiger, and replace their losses faster than the German Army.”
Another factor was that we would recover our vehicles if they broke down or got knocked out.
The Germans on the otherhand didn’t do that.