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I love the F-22 but your proposed scenario is a very very poor justification for more.Would having more F-22s rather than, say, upgraded F-15s or F-16s with AESA radars really give that much better defense against that threat?And in the unlikely scenario that it did the F-22 would be useless if the sub happened to be a balistic missile sub.The relative lack of F-22s would principally hurt if facing multiple front expeditionary conflicts against peer opponents with advanced Flanker or better level fighters.And in those types of conflicts you'll also need F-35s instead of F-16s, F-18s etc because of the corresponding advanced SAM threat.A top-up order of F-22s (from approx 40 to 80 to try to stay somewhat realistic) would have been great but in reality this or larger F-22 orders would have been ripped out of the guts of the F-35 and the best complement you would now have would be new warmed-up F-16s.
I love the F-22 but your proposed scenario is a very very poor justification for more.
Would having more F-22s rather than, say, upgraded F-15s or F-16s with AESA radars really give that much better defense against that threat?
And in the unlikely scenario that it did the F-22 would be useless if the sub happened to be a balistic missile sub.
The relative lack of F-22s would principally hurt if facing multiple front expeditionary conflicts against peer opponents with advanced Flanker or better level fighters.
And in those types of conflicts you'll also need F-35s instead of F-16s, F-18s etc because of the corresponding advanced SAM threat.
A top-up order of F-22s (from approx 40 to 80 to try to stay somewhat realistic) would have been great but in reality this or larger F-22 orders would have been ripped out of the guts of the F-35 and the best complement you would now have would be new warmed-up F-16s.
