On Mar 9, 12:34*pm, Ed Rasimus wrote:
Or you get data updates from AWACS or JSTARS or satellite or Predator
or ground observer or...

But if you are low observable in your Raptor and you are supporting
low observable F-35s, you really aren't too concerned about radar or
IR based SAMs.

Exactly.

As long as there are F-35s to escort it, the F-22 can keep to the high
and fast overwatch mission.

It excels at the role, with ceiling, supercruise, stealth and long
range radar.

As long as nothing else comes close it'll be fine.

The one thing the F-22 will not do is face the PAK-FA in combat.

Why?

It's because the biggest difference between the F-22 and the PAK-FA is
two decades of development.

By the time the PAK-FA is finally combat ready the F-22s will be
retired from service.

-HJC