Comments by "faron tilley" (@forzaisspeed) on "The Deadliest Jet Fighter Of All Time" video.
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Good video but the F-22 is NOT the best, its outdated as well as the fact you got a lot of facts wrong in the video, just goes to show me that you don't know the F-22 - YF-23 or even other Fighter's, and are just reading off a wiki page.
I mean where to begin.
1st ) - Radar The APG-77 is good yes but not the best, it gets outclassed by radar's like the Captor E and APG-81, yes the APG-77v1 is a upgraded slandered 77 but even that is outclassed by again the Captor E and APG-81, even though the v1 type brings parts from the 81 and the 80 off the Block 60 F-16, the upgrades just give the F-22 more ability for air to ground attacks and a long range.
2nd ) - The F-22 does not have a IRST or FLIR System for example yes it does have a BAE System's ARL-94 system that worked like a passive radar like a IRST, but it does not do as much for example, it helps the 77 by picking up radar signatures from other jet's or SAM system's like all EWS like DASS on the Eurofighter or DAS on the F-35, the 94 lets the pilot search for a enemy with having the main radar with only giving out the smallest signature but a enemy will have to be looking for the F-22 first in order for the 94 to fine and start to search, unlike a IRST can search find track and lock on to on its own even it the enemy has its radar tuned off, the F-22 will need to use the main properly when doing other jobs where a IRST/FLIR can do most jobs with out needing to use the main radar.
3rd ) - The F-22 does not have a HMD ( Helmet Mounted Display ) most jet's have the ability to search find track and lock on to, using the Helmet the F-22 does not have this way to do so, it also means that the F-22 cant use Weapons like most other Fighter's can, or lunch a IR Missile over the Shoulder in a LOBL way like most jets can, plus BVRM it has limits on what it can do with its weapons in a combat fight WVR or BVR.
4th ) - Performance The F-22 is yes a very agile Jet but not as agile as a Eurofighter or SU-57, for example the F-22 has Thrust Vectoring where the Eurofighter does not, but the F-22 has a STR around 27 D/S the Eurofighter's STR is around 28.5 D/S, for there ITR the Eurofighter win's that as well, just cause the F-22 has Thrust Vectoring does not mean it has the best turn rates or moves for other words, at slow speed's the Eurofighter is more agile as while in high speed's, plus given the design of the F-22's body and wings the Eurofighter in its design is more then 20% more efficient in terms of energy bleed in turns and able to hold a tighter turn for longer then the F-22.
5th ) - Wins and Loses the F-22 has not got a clean win streak, the F-22 has been beaten many different time's over the year's, from the F/A-18 to the Eurofighter the F-22 hs been beaten even by a SU-27 in different game's and exercises before, in fact the Eurofighter has won more against the F-22 then the other way around.
6th ) - Speed using TMS the F-22's Mach speed is only Mach 1.95 round 1490 - 1499mph the 2 engines with a thrust for 35,000ibf is good more then most less then some, due to the weight and drag of the body able to supercruise around Mach 1.6 around 1200mph but even the Eurofighter can supercuise at Mach 1.6 being not with a full payload but still with some ASRAAM's for example, the Eurofighter having 2 EJ200 with 21,500ibf each with re-heat the Eurofighter has a faster top end speed then the F-22 at 1550mph at Mach 2.02 but even with a full payload for example the Eurofighter can still hit around 1350mph, plus it agility is still very very good.
7th ) - BVRM's The Meteor just wins, the 120D its not even close, the F-22 cant use the Meteor unlike the Eurofighter that can.
8th ) - All Round Capability the Eurofighter is just a better jet in more area's, even the SU-57 puts the F-22 in its place in most area's, the F-22 is just outdated and not as capable as other's, for example the F-22 is only now getting Link-16 put in its system, meaning with it it can now talk to other units and other jet's more easily all on one system, the 120D its only gotten that in the last year or so, again no HMD and so on.
9th ) - The YF-23 was the better jet, it came down to Lockheed just showing it off more that won the contract in the end, the YF-23 was more stealth and was faster, plus nearly just as agile even without thrust vectoring, around 23 - 25 D/S for STR while the F-22 needed thrust vectoring to have its 27 D/S.
And So on and So on more to say but if i was to wright all the things about the F-22 down i would properly still be writing 5 hours from now so 9 points should be good.
F-22 NOT the best.
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