
hornetfinn wrote:[
There is no question about that. F-22 is currently in a league of its own when it comes to actual air superiority missions. It has VLO stealth, Mach 1.8+ supercruise, great maneuverability in all speed and altitudes along with very powerful radar and EW system.
Summed it up nicely right there.
At the beginning of the video, ATE said "The F-22 isn't really built to dogfight, it was built to kill its enemies with Stealth before they even detect the F-22"
while that is technically true, it is also widely translated into, it's not very good for ACM. This was taken out of an article from Business insider
If a fight were to start during an intercept like the one this week, the Russian pilot would have the huge advantage of having the F-22 in sight. What's more, the Russian Su-35 can maneuver better than the F-22.
Retired Lt. Col. David "Chip" Berke, the only US Marine to fly both the F-22 and the F-35, previously told Business Insider that with the F-22, "my objective wouldn't be to get in a turning fight" with an adversary. Instead, Berke said, he would use the F-22's natural advantages of stealth to avoid the dogfight.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-f-22 ... age-2018-9
The media can easily twists words to push the narrative that they want.