Forum: F-22A Raptor

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Everyone who can read can read many books and public literature on electromagnetics on how that "size matters not."

I've heard the "size doesn't matter" thing before, but it sure seems like it ought to matter at least to some extent. Let's use the F-35 as an example. It's been stated in news articles to have an RCS in the same size class as a golfball. If changing an object's size didn't affect its RCS, then a miniature replica of an F-35 the size of a rice grain should still have an RCS that is golfball-sized. How can a stealthy shape generate more radar return than a non-stealthy shape that is larger than it is? I'm sure that once the object of interest is smaller than the wavelength painting it, the rules change. I don't understand that part very well.

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Well, "size doesn't matter" is a standard response of those with small d!cks/LOL > sry couldn't resist.
I think someone confused "size doesn't matter" in RCS terms with drag coefficient "size doesn't matter" which is true.

" It was put into service before is was tested completely as will the F-35 and we will go through many years of headaches with that jet as we have with the Raptor. "

So from my recollections and having been in the Air Force as well - the F-22 started flight testing in 1990 with the current airframe configuration in 1997 and entering service in 2005... so in your opinion this aircraft wasnt tested completely? How so? Enlighten me as I find that all the engineers and the flight test guys at Edwards wasted all those flight hours and times? What tests didnt they complete?

You keep talking about buying more legacy jets - but yet say that the F-22 will be needed at some point? Well when is that point? When the shooting starts? You keep concentrating on the notion that when one of the panels are taken off - all the sudden the aircraft has lost all of its stealth features because the LO material has been compromised on that particular panel.

We shouldnt be fighting the next war like we did the last one - the legacy fighters are getting long in tooth and I certainly don't want to face the next BIG threat that has double digit SAMS and actual air threat without the next generation fighters as part of the package.

Or better yet lets throw fuel to fire and give consternation to the 5th generation fighter lovers/haters and the legacy fighters groupies and just get rid of all manned fighters and have an all UCV force???

Forum: F-22A Raptor

B-2 stealthier than F-22??