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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
Hey, now in fairness to our friend, 9 out of every 10 threads on this forum are pointless from A to Z. If we were to cut out the pointless content, no one would have anything to talk about.
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Point taken.
One thing one would want to add to what already has been said, is this: since the F-22 has been polanned for a big war in which you would need all your ressources, you nevertheless would not want to need to depend on such a maintenance-heavy piece of equipement with a major failure taking place every 1.8 hours. you want reliable equipement, since it will be put under enormous stress in such a big war, and you want your equipement not sitting in hangars, but putting air presence up into the air, where it belongs. So, even if taking into account the original kind of war the Raptor was planned for, it would be an anachronism, due to it's economic inefficiency.
It seems to me that if you compare maintenance time as well as production costs per piece, the F-22 would need to reach an even much higher kill ratio to justify it'S enormous costs. referring to that (disputable, btw) simulation of duels against the SU-35, and the F-22 scoring a kill ratio of 10:1 and the Typhoon "just" 4:1, you compare this 2.5 times higher kill ratio against 3 times as high costs and 3-9 higher maintenance time - time in which the Typhoon is in the air and the Raptor sits in the hangar.