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Originally Posted by MH
As far as i can tell training contributes a lot...hope it is the same in USA. 
Red Flag exercise usually puts blues in favorite position yet i had been reading that F22 engagements usually make sense if Raptor is at disadvantage.
But hell...with American industrial military complex its wonder why you don't have stealth pigeons. 
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What you say is true and untrue.In my experience some training was good and some was not very good at all.The tech school training for my job was not very effective they taught us good basics but very little to prepare us for the actual job.The USAF also cut the number of training hours for F-22 pilots due to operational costs .Also you have never severed in the United States Air Force if you did you'd have a different opinion.
What I am saying is that if certain interests want a bit of hardware bad enough they will get it.The F-22 overall is just far too expensive to truly warrant any advantage that it might have in certain situations.We still think with a Cold War mindset while our enemies think differently why fight our powerful military when they can simply cyber attack our banking system? We should be spending 150 million dollars on cyber warfare not the F-22 or what ever it costs I have seen as high as 400 million per unit claimed.