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F-22 night refueling
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En route to hit ISIS in Syria.
Hit ISIS? Or Syrian Oil? That is the question...
Good picture though.
the most advanced airplane mass produced in the world used to hit some guerrillas that barely operate radars
Debatable now if it is the "most advanced". But yeah, I know what you mean.
Advanced, yes. Efficient...maybe. Economical, oh hell no.
Advanced? Yeah, sits just above level with 4++ fighters of today, but scores a VLO profile while its at it. Efficient? How the hell would we know? It dropped its minuscule payload on some empty concrete buildings, which isn't exactly a stunning début. Meanwhile Syrian Air Defence smugly claim they saw every single Raptor enter and exit their airspace on radar (quoted to me by a Syrian friend), so IF they had decided to open fire we may have had a chance to see what the F-22 could do, and MAYBE assess it from there... This whole F-22 exercise was a play to justify the ludicrous amount of money that was sunk into the program.