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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
If they used the external hard points (there are four each capable of carrying 2 AIM-120s plus a tank) the F-22 could carry 14 AMRAAMs and 4 Sidewinders.  |
If you can afford to deploy it in a scenario where there's a greater than 20% chance of it being shot at effectively.
If you can actually field enough of them to make a difference.
I think that there is a real danger in this current economic and technological climate of the US pricing itself out of the weapons market. Not in exports but for its own airforce. Not just the US but the UK as well, how often does it happen in both our countries that a specific number of a unit is set down on paper when the plans are drawn up, but when it actually comes to making it, the numbers are cut and cut and cut because we just can't afford it.
I guess that's the problem with privatised military firms, they don't work unless you throw billions of dollars at them.