Considering some of the structural issues for a number of F22 a dogfight where the airframe is put into heavy stress might not be a good idea. WVR the Raptors
LO advantage falls away and it currently lacks a HMSS for IR AAMs.
Up close and personal is exactly where a Raptor for all its power and agility does'nt want to be.
In a pure turning fight with cannon at high altitude oddly I'd say a Canberra with 30mm ADEN will give it a whopping great headache.
Would be interesting to know how well it performs down low amongst the weeds. Could have trouble at 50ft and transonic speed.
BVR is where the Raptor rules, never close enough to be seen visualy or by IR its can pick and choose who to shoot, how to shoot and when to shoot and never see a responce, always able to avoid getting close thanks to a high cruise speed and supersonic agility......assuming its software does'nt crash mid flight.
Its better than most for an interception of a high flying mach3 aircraft, though the F14 and Pheonix is a more capable weapons system against such a threat.
Oh and external AAMs rather ruin the whole LO design, external AAMs effectively mean visisblity to radar.
The closest comparable system still seems to be Typhoon for cruise, acceleration, agility, a good cockpit and weapons system architecture. Its only vice is a lack of good all aspect LO form.
Of course LO works well assuming you never come up against a system designed to defeat it, distributed radar on several connected platforms would expose that at the risk of their connectivity being hacked or shut down by ECM. But what can be hacked into can be hacked out of, which is the risk with the idea of AESA sets used to hack the enemy.
Up close and personal is exactly where a Raptor for all its power and agility does'nt want to be.
In a pure turning fight with cannon at high altitude oddly I'd say a Canberra with 30mm ADEN will give it a whopping great headache.
Would be interesting to know how well it performs down low amongst the weeds. Could have trouble at 50ft and transonic speed.
BVR is where the Raptor rules, never close enough to be seen visualy or by IR its can pick and choose who to shoot, how to shoot and when to shoot and never see a responce, always able to avoid getting close thanks to a high cruise speed and supersonic agility......assuming its software does'nt crash mid flight.
Its better than most for an interception of a high flying mach3 aircraft, though the F14 and Pheonix is a more capable weapons system against such a threat.
Oh and external AAMs rather ruin the whole LO design, external AAMs effectively mean visisblity to radar.
The closest comparable system still seems to be Typhoon for cruise, acceleration, agility, a good cockpit and weapons system architecture. Its only vice is a lack of good all aspect LO form.
Of course LO works well assuming you never come up against a system designed to defeat it, distributed radar on several connected platforms would expose that at the risk of their connectivity being hacked or shut down by ECM. But what can be hacked into can be hacked out of, which is the risk with the idea of AESA sets used to hack the enemy.
