F-22 has two issues no different fighter-aircraft has (F-35 included)
All-aspect stealth. Different “stealth” plane are stealthy solely when checked out from a comparatively slim frontal cone.
Thrust vectored engines with lowered IR signature. There are different TV engines. There are different lowered IR signature engines. However there are not any different engines with each on the similar time. (Russia and China appear to battle in precisely this division. Present Russian and Chinese language “stealth” fighters have “unusual” engines with enormous energy and big IR signatures that may be simply detected.)
These two issues put collectively give the Raptor a considerable and – maybe – decisive benefit over another present fighter in each BVR and shut fight: all-aspect stealth means more durable to get a radar lock at distance, whereas low-IR TV engines means more durable to get IR lock: the Raptor not solely emits much less IR radiation but in addition turns actually rapidly (as a thrust vectored plane ought to).
In different phrases: If a Raptor occurs to encounter a distant fighter with a strong radar – she’s stealthy. If a Raptor occurs to encounter a bizarrely highly effective and agile post-stallesque 4++ opponent – she’s fairly agile herself and he or she doesn’t promote her sizzling rear in all instructions.
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