Ski8799
Active member
Even the Russians freely admit that their avionics upgrades and advances in technology are too little too late. I'm not just being the typical patriotic American when I say that the F-22 will own the skies for quite awhile.
1) its signals intelligence and avionics are unprecedented, it will discover bogies 30 miles before their opponent discovers them. Yes, 30 miles.
2) the thrust vectoring is another incredible development as it will allow the raptor to turn very sharply and approach bogies at an extremely high angle of attack, this is critical, it will literally outperform anything.
3)detection by the enemy will be nearly impossible with the following sensors to eliminate detection by; radar sig., visual, infrared, acoustic, radio frequency.
4) internally carried armament, the new AMRAAM with a significant increase in range, the new JDAM for close air support.
BTW, you can't just slap a thrust vectoring system on a fulcrum and then proclaim the birth of the Russian Raptor.
1) its signals intelligence and avionics are unprecedented, it will discover bogies 30 miles before their opponent discovers them. Yes, 30 miles.
2) the thrust vectoring is another incredible development as it will allow the raptor to turn very sharply and approach bogies at an extremely high angle of attack, this is critical, it will literally outperform anything.
3)detection by the enemy will be nearly impossible with the following sensors to eliminate detection by; radar sig., visual, infrared, acoustic, radio frequency.
4) internally carried armament, the new AMRAAM with a significant increase in range, the new JDAM for close air support.
BTW, you can't just slap a thrust vectoring system on a fulcrum and then proclaim the birth of the Russian Raptor.