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I picked this up from warfare.ru
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Gee I wonder if this article might be biased!!!
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The Madness of the F-22 Fighter
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Yes, it is mad crazy amazing.
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Tiffany's on wings. That's how one senate aide refers to the Pentagon and its contractor's latest dream weapon: the F-22. "It's showy, unimaginably expensive, fragile and utterly useless", the aide tells us. "But there's no stopping it."
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It actually isn't all that costly.
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Across the next 15 years, billions of dollars have been poured into the project with little to show for it. Indeed, the F-22 has enjoyed the longest coming out party of any plane in the history of the Pentagon. And, according to Pentagon analysts, it's still nowhere near ready to go into production. Indeed, some argue that the plane, designed to attack an enemy that no longer exists, is already obsolete, both technologically and strategically.
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Enemy that no longer exists? Will excuse me, evidently the world outside the U.S has stopped using fighter planes!
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Even by historical standards the escalation in the price-tag for the F-22 has been jaw-dropping. Originally, the Air Force said it was going to purchase 880 planes for around $40 billion. Within a few months, the price doubled to $80 billion. In 1991, the Pentagon's Selected Acquisitions Review looked at the F-22 and decided that fewer planes should be built, scaling the order down to 680 planes for $64.2 billion. Then the 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review cut the number of planes even further: 339 aircraft for the same price. The $35 million fighter has now turned into a $190 million plane, four times the cost of an F-15.
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Gee, maybe we'll be the non existant Su-47 instead
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The F-22 hasn't proved all that safe to fly either. In one of its first test flights, the F-22 began to wobble uncontrollably as it attempted to land, finally smacking into the runway without landing gear, then skidding for 8,000 feet before it caught fire and partially burned. The third test flight was cancelled because the hydraulic gearing didn't work. In March of last year, the Air Force was forced to suspend test flights for six weeks after a review found problems with the plane's brakes, landing gear, environmental control systems, avionics software, missile launch detector, plus cracks in the cockpit canopy.
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The Air Force touts the F-22's supposed stealth capabilities as a point of superiority compared with the aging but durable F-15. But the F-22 hasn't proved to be all that invisible, after all. From one discreet angle, the F-22 slips past radar screens. But from other apertures and latitudes, the plane, in the words of a Senate staffer, "lights up like the Budweiser blimp".
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OH RIGHT! LOL. And some russian military site managed to get their hands on this type of black project data! what a load of b.s
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"The avionics for the F-22 were obsolete before the plane even went into production", a Pentagon analyst tells CounterPunch. That's because the computer systems that act as the plane's brain are powered by five-volt silicon chips. These went out of date in 1992 when Intel introduced the 3.3 volt Pentium chip. Now most computers run on the even faster Pentium III, a 1-volt microchip. "Imagine if this plane ever joins the fleet and is running on computer systems that are already 10 years out of date and will be 30 years out of date in the future," a senate staffer said. "It will be like trying to run a spreadsheet with an abacus."
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Evidently the journalist can't even name the most recent processor called the pentium 4, nor does he know what software and avionics are running the F-22.
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The main reason for that is a new very sophisticated Russian radar, which unexpectedly appeared on the market, and which will make F-117, F-22, B-2 radar signature as large as that of Boeing 737!
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rhetoric. this was the best part of the article. what a joke. Evidently this new Russian Radar is so groundbreaking that the laws of physics cease to exist in its combat radius.
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STEALTH IS NOT AN UNBEATABLE TECHNOLOGY !!!
Stealth is combination of the followng things :-
1. Stealth design - Reduces the RCS (Still detectable)
2. Proper Mission Planning (Waypoints, Altitude etc) - To fly through low-threat areas
3. Practicing EMCON (Emmission Control - Radio silence, Limited Radar Use, No ECM stuff) - Commonly trusted practice
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Really? Thats not what we've seen so far in Baghdad and other such places. Pretty unbeatable vs. ground threats.
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In a dogfight, Su-37 will beats the living hell out of the Raptor.
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It's a no show. The F-22 can track, lock and shoot down 7 targets simultaneously. The Su's would get annihilated.
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In a nutshell, F-22 can be ecountered with Su-37 Flankers (But a true Raptor Killer has to be developed, like the MiG-1.42)
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ooh boy. this obviously isn't bias. The Mig 1.42 that doesn't exist.