Comments by "Hyok Kim" (@hyokkim7726) on "Cancelling the F-22 Fighter is Worse than You Think" video.

  1. 0354 Raptor was never intended to fight a war of attrition on going basis: It was designed as initial 'tip of the spear' SEAD mission. After that, 4th gen fighters and fighter bombers can take over and do the mop off. Stealth, 5th gen fighters simply do not have the capacity for ground and pound. The carrying capacity is too limited, and too restricted due to the stealth design. Having 5th gen do the job of 4th gen is penny wise and dollar foolish. 0414 Dude, you don't use 5th gen fighters for escort duties! You might as well have pigs wear diamonds. You use 5th gen fighters for initial, pre-emptive, SEAD, and some precision strike on ultra high value enemy targets. For conventional air superiority fights, you might as well use 4th gen fighters; they carry far more warheads, and far more flexible in the kind of warhead they can carry than any 5th gen, Plus 5th gen fighters, every time you use them, you have to examine the stealth panels, most definitely after they go beyond mach. This reduces the sortie rate. You cannot use them on going battle of attrition. This got to be done in a 'clean room', using specialized equipment, and technicians trained, EXPENSIVE, and Time consuming. Now, ROK is developing hard baked stealth panels that are maintenance free to be used in KF-21s in the future, but ROK is not going to share with U.S. 0523 For stealth mode, F22 cannot carry externally: It must be carried in internal bay. If F22 is to carry externally, why not just use 4th gen, and equip it with F22 radars? PRC 5th gen is a joke: 5th gen in name only. F22 cannot use meteor, the best missile from air; why Rafael is a sales success. F22 is a stealth, so less visible in enemy radar, but its missile range is far shorter than meteor. Rafael is a 4th gen, but can fire meteor, which has a far longer range than F22, and its radar is just as capable of F22. So F22 can see Rafael, before Rafael can see F22. But Rafael can hit F22 before F22 can hit Rafael. Rafael's ability to see will keep improving; F22's ability not to be seen is not improving. In the end, F22 will lose its edge. Me thinks stealth factor is overblown, especially in the form of U.S. style soft stealth panel: too finicky, not cost effective, too high maintenance. Radar keeps improving, stealth panel is not improving at the rate radar is improving: radar is also far cheaper than stealth planes, and can be used on multi-platforms, spreading the cost of mass adoption. The shape and size of internal bay of stealth planes limits the shape/size of the weapons it can deliver. Stealth fighters cannot use the longer range, faster, more accurate missiles that 4th gen can use. 5th gen should be used for initial SEAD, and selective ultra high value targets only, not on going rumble in the air, not cost effective.
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