F22: F Yeah

https://www.thisisinsider.com/f-22s...rcraft-in-first-combat-surge-in-syria-2018-10

 

How does a stealth fighter deter anything? How do they even know it's there to be afraid of it?

 

Those things are truly amazing in action. I was at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson outside of Anchorage several years ago and those guys were hot dogging the shit out of those jets. You can't hear or think when they goose it they are so fucking loud. They'd come down and touch their wheels on the tarmac and take right back off and point the thing straight up in the sky and be gone in a matter of seconds. Bad Ass piece of machinery there.

 

All their warning buzzers that they are about to be blown out of the sky so they head back to where they came from. Buzzers stop buzzing f22 goes back into hiding everyone’s happy.

 

It's not so much that it is a stealth fighter. The 22 and 35 are both trackable on RADAR, they just have a reduced shadow is all. It is the fact that it is more advanced than the best air superiority bird ever built - the F-15. It has an integrated avionics system that can track and shoot down other jets before those other jets see it on their RADAR. It can track and shoot down multiple jets at the same time better than the 14 and 15.

They would rather just not mess with one is all...and likely just gathered as much info on them as they flew around as they could.

 

Well, I guess its about time they finally put the taxpayers' money to use. They haven't used those things for anything but patrolling and practice maneuvers for like the last decade or so, right?

 

“F-22s on this deployment escorted US Navy F/A-18s as part of their mission.”
Those poor Navy pilots.

 

Best use ever is the one where you don't have to pull the trigger.

 

How did any of you read the article....it kept jumping around as it was loading the 931 bagillion ads that I said screw it. The lead picture was badass, so there's that.

 

Ad blockers are your friend

 

Does anyone have 'em other than us?
Israelis?
(Beautiful platform; would like to see what could be done to make it better... )

 

It's an impressive piece of machinery but I'm not happy to see more assets being moved into Syria.
The hawks are sucking Trump in.

 

The F-22 isn't exported anywhere. Only we have them.

 

Only we have them, and even we can't get as many as we were supposed to get.

 

You know what's crazy? They started developing this thing in 1986! At this point, it's essentially 30 year old tech, and it's light years ahead of anything else. Does anyone remember consumer technology from 1986? Hell, compare the phones we had in 2006 to the phones we have today. Imagine what would be possible if the development and procurement process was measured in months instead of years?

 

Sketchy reports that 4 of the F22s assigned to Tyndall AFB were unable to fly and were damaged if not destroyed by Michael.

Other reports say that they all flew out of harms way.

 

I got to do some civilian stuff at Elmendorf and got to get up close to the F-22 for a visit. Then they went training for the afternoon and it was amazing.

It was cool meeting some of pilots of the 22's

 

Saw a video showing at least 2 sitting in a hanger with the roof tore off.

 

I'd guess that it is a live test and has a lot of value there. Probe the enemy's abilities without a declared war is better.