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Originally Posted by Jim Sims
Great, another military aircraft that is probably too expensive to regularly send in harm's way. Looks like we are paying for an air force that is "a force in being". The drones will end up doing the real dangerous, dirty work. Reminds me of the German fleet in WWI: the battleships holed up in port while the then "new technology" submarines went out to take the fight to the enemy. Why is the military always about one and half wars behind the times?
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The F-22 is the tip of our airborne spear. It will do the most dangerous and most important jobs (Air supremacy and SEAD) that allow the rest of the force to function properly.
Don- NO nation that flies F-15s has ever lost one in air to air combat. It has a kill ratio of infinity (i think it's 137.5 kills to no losses).
No US soldier has been lost to air attack since the Korean war.
Without Air superiority, the US cannot fight the way it fights. The US Army is simply not designed to fight in an environment of air parity. Army air defense is quite solid, but it's definitely by no means air tight.