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To: Hill of Tara
What happens when your hardpoints are empty and your guns are dry?

You leave the area ASAP.

I think I've read that in a recent simulation, the F-22 was at least 10 times more likely to survive all known threats in any given area than the F-15. When you are a U.S. Marine on the ground, having the skies over you dominated by however many F-22's has to be important. I understand that most fighter pilots want them because they are very, very hard to shoot down with SAM's.

10 posted on 03/06/2006 5:24:17 PM PST by Tom Bombadil
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To: Tom Bombadil

The F-22's role isn't close air support. That's supposed to be the job of the F-35 JSF.


11 posted on 03/06/2006 5:27:06 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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