Quit drinking the zoomie kool aid.
“Obviously you’ve never had to fulfill an ATO requiring SEAD aircraft to suppress the very radars that can detect the airplanes; re F-117, B-2 and F-22, that the air force claims can’t be detected by said radars.”
Er, the F-117 is no longer in service, further no one has ever said that the B-2 and F-22 stealth makes them completely impervious to radar, it just lowers the detection ranges. In many cases far enough that the enemy radars are in fact rendered useless.
Are you disputing the advertised kill ratios for the F-22 in exercises?
My main point regarding the F-22, though, is that once it’s not considered such sensitive technology that it can’t be exported, there’s serious demand. It would be nice to get many billions in export dollars, eh? Not to mention not losing thousands of highly paid jobs...
It’s far from clear to me that 88 Growlers is an insufficient force - it sounds more like a pork deal than anything else.
“Quit drinking the zoomie kool aid.”
Someone’s been drinking something... ;-)