One French Fighter Pilot Killed An F-22 Raptor Sort Of
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How to Shoot Down a Stealth F-22 Raptor? Ask France, They Did
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And its not the only instance.
Here s What You Need to Remember: No plane is invincible and the F-22 is no exception.
Past evidence seems to confirm that a French fighter pilot once “killed” an American F-22 Raptor stealth fighter in mock combat.
Although not unprecedented, the simulated shoot-down is still a big deal for a couple reasons.
This article first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest.
For one, the Lockheed Martin-made F-22 is supposed to be the most fearsome warplane in history, a quarter-billion-dollar-per-plane technological marvel that flies higher and faster than its opponents while avoiding detection by radar. The Pentagon is counting on a tiny number of the pricey Raptors slightly more than 180 to ward off potentially much larger numbers of enemy planes for the foreseeable future. Every mock dogfight the F-22 loses undermines the Pentagon’s plans for air dominance.