[TalonDJ]

The reality.....

These fighters are only effective for early stealth strikes against heavily defended installations.

Do your homework. The F-22 has been, since the first moment it was a spark in some generals cortex, intended to do just one thing. That was NOT strike. That was to blow away every darn thing that attempted to challenge it in the air. It is called an Air Dominance Fighter for a reason. Whether the Zero will order it or not they will protect the country from attack. And anyone that things we will be immune to conventional attack after he ditches our nukes is fatally shortsighted.

[sam_paine]

Whoa, FRiend.

Don't overconstrue my point. It's a multirole fighter. The first place you might have seen it would be dropping JDAMs on Iran, you never know.

Whether the Zero will order it or not they will protect the country from attack.

Ok. Semantics.

Guns don't kill, people do. And Raptor pilots don't fly without orders.

I think it is perfectly clear that with Zero as CinC, The USA is essentially just waiting, defenseless, for the next 9.11.

[PreciousLiberty]

"And anyone that thinks we will be immune to conventional nuclear attack after he ditches our nukes is fatally shortsighted."

There, fixed it. /sigh