[Bryan24]

There is no such thing as a “cold-war” era jet when talking about the F-22.

If you control the skies, you win.

The F-22 controls the skies.

It IS that simple.

[org.whodat]

It controls the sky when you are fighting a backward country that has no air force and no modern day anti aircraft defense. So would a WWII mustang and it would do it a lot cheaper.LOL

[Tonytitan]

The F-22 controls the skies.

The Raptor has never killed an enemy in combat. Until it does all it controls is friendly airspace.

[org.whodat]

1) Military Academy of Air Defense and Aircraft Army of Russian Federation, Smolensk, Russia

Revised: 21 September 2007 Published online: 3 July 2008

Abstract It is considered an approach to development a form of information subsystem of self-guided antiaircraft controlled missiles (ACM) of promising antiaircraft missile systems (AMS). Author’s viewpoint about mentioned problem is based on long experience of theoretical researches in this application domain and development works of integrated homing heads (HH).

There is no defense system to stop a computer guided air to air are ground to air missile. A plane with a human in it cannot fly fast enough are turn fast enough. Period.