[ProtectOurFreedom]

There was an excellent article yesterday that said the F-22 greatly magnifies the F-16’s capabilities. The F-22 provides so large an air superiority advantage that we can depend on older technology to perform as it was originally designed. The argument was that the F-22 effectively breathes new life into the aging fleet of F-16s. I thought this was very persuasive.

[too_cool_for_skool]

The USAF is claiming the F-22 has a 150:1 kill ratio in exercises. Even if the real life kill ratio is a fraction of this at 50:1, that means the existing 187 F-22s would match up with 9000 enemy fighters - more than all the fighter jets in the world put together.

Cap the order at 187 and spend the money on developing the 6th generation fighter.

[rlmorel]

Yes. What most people refer to is the Northern Edge exercise in Alaska a few years back, when the F22 first took part, detailed in this link:

Aviation Week and Space Techology's Article on the F-22 in Northern Edge

What is impressive is that they really still at that point had not realized what a force magnifier the F-22 is, and how best to use it.