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I always want the the troops to have the best equipment, but there's a practical side to this as well. I don't deny the F-22s superiority over anything else that flies these days, but in terms of dollars vs benefits I just don't see the value, its an air superiority fighter at at time when in our current wars we have air superiority by default meaning we don't even have to fight for it. Plus you have the fact that an F-22 costs about 5 times more than an F-15C, Apache was right about the designation, now does an F-22.
Its an amazing piece of equipment that's for sure but I don't know if I see it as being worth the taxpayer dollars that went into it.
What makes you think we have air superiority by default? Because we are able to establish it against crap nations like Libya or Iraq while only losing a couple of pilots?
China and Russia both have 5th Gen fighters, as well as some pretty bad-a-- SAMs.