“The F-22 took part in the exercise while under strict flying restrictions imposed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta”
Would love to know what those restrictions were and how the F-22 would perform without them. The F-22 is tremendously powerful and maneuverable with it’s thrust vectoring. Foreign pilots flying against them in earlier simulated encounters basically said, “It’s not fair, we can’t see it on radar and we can’t lock it up when in visual range.
Panetta is part of the administration that cancelled the F-22 and is a POS in general. I have to wonder if he wasn’t attempting to sabotage the F-22’s performance to justify the Kenyan’s ending the F-22 project.
Warthog.
I saw them at an air show in Tucson, AZ. I can see why they scare the pants off the diaper head terrorists overseas.
They sometimes seemed like they could just hover and deliver a blast like a firehose on a target
Or maybe you don’t show off your best capabilities in public.