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No doubt this plane is unmatched in the sky today. I only question the 187 number. Personally I would push for more, but such is the nature of budgets. I know there is a 'Dear Colleague" going around Congress pushing for the program to continue, but we will have to see how that plays out in the upcoming budget battle.In the coming years however, I still think unmanned tops the F-22. The problem I suppose for our future competitors will be the need to eliminate the F-22 before it gets airborne. If you want to classify China as the rising challenge (and I think we should) then the problem needs to be addressed of protecting the staging sites for the F-22. Should we launch an F-22 attack against China, I would predict the Chinese response would not be to go out and dogfight, but rather a massive attack on the launching bases, resulting in a serious problem for the F-22's that are airborne.
No doubt this plane is unmatched in the sky today. I only question the 187 number. Personally I would push for more, but such is the nature of budgets. I know there is a 'Dear Colleague" going around Congress pushing for the program to continue, but we will have to see how that plays out in the upcoming budget battle.
In the coming years however, I still think unmanned tops the F-22. The problem I suppose for our future competitors will be the need to eliminate the F-22 before it gets airborne. If you want to classify China as the rising challenge (and I think we should) then the problem needs to be addressed of protecting the staging sites for the F-22. Should we launch an F-22 attack against China, I would predict the Chinese response would not be to go out and dogfight, but rather a massive attack on the launching bases, resulting in a serious problem for the F-22's that are airborne.
