Comments by "Geoffrey Lyons" (@granatmof) on "How the F-15EX reinvented air combat... again?" video.

@charlesc.9012 the USAF had decoy missiles/drones (lines are getting blurry to me) that can emulate a preprogrammed radar return of anything g in the fleet from a single A10 to a formation of B52s And F15EX flying into contested space is going to have HARM missiles hunting enemy radar, and enemy radar is going to see the sky full of target and not have clue which ones are there or not, and that's not including all the jamming and electronic warfare ongoing. Ultimately airframes are being to get so expensive that it's cheaper to make every plane do everything than it is to have dedicated roles and hardware. Which is yet another reason why the A10 needs to die.
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F22 isn't a "new" platform by any stretch. The F22 production lines were all canabalized for the F35 while the F15 continued production. This is far more important. I realized I could have written most of your video for you, which is pretty interesting to me. The weapon capacity of the F15 is by far it's most useful capability. I will never fully comprehend which general or engineer though the 4 hardpoits of the F35 was even close to enough. Lockheed has a new air to air missile that is much smaller allowing for 2 missiles per hard point, but that only leaves 2 hard points for attack, which is what the original f117 was only capable of. I will agree though that air superiority fighters are pretty much dead. You can find some simulator demos where like 10 f22s can shoot off dozens of missiles on different targets, and the missiles just take them out. I dont think that's gonna change. And in an actual war, I'd much rather lose the airframe that has bother one coming off the assembly line than lose the one without an assembly line. My hope for the NGAD is more like a stealth f111 aardvard: more range and more payload capacity than any short range fighters.
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