In article , "Mike Kanze"
wrote:

And these aircraft are how old?=20

Imagine the corrosion control challenge the F-22 would present in a =
really corrosive environment like carrier operations.=20

I'm not going to defend Lockheed in the least on this except to note
that there are many different kinds of "corrosion", and carrier operations
expose an aircraft to only 2 or 3 of the types.

--
Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur