Is it true that the F-22 raptor is not that good?

You Tube is such a notable fact-centric news source. NOT.

Everyone has an opinion, and you just bought into the worst one of all. The article you reference was a bash-piece in support of defense cuts and the F-35. Face it, in this modern age of aviation technology, it all costs more than sometimes makes sense to the uninformed.

The F-22 was built using "newly born" generation 4 technologies. It is the most efficient, most stealthy aircraft in the entire world. That said, it was rushed through production and they are upgrading avionics and armament related electronics to enhance capability and the ability to down-link, cross-link and share data in flight. One other issue worth noting, as people try to bash the F-22. It was designed and first flew almost 30 years ago. 30 years! China and Russia are still 5-10 years out from fielding a match for it.

The numbers are skewed horribly to make it look like a pig, but the plane is a rock star. Nothing else in the world can match the Raptor in air-to-air capability. It is the first true air superiority fighter without peer. (The F-15 is my baby but we had to stand toe to toe with the equally capable Migs.) The F-35 borrowed from the lessons learned and using the data gathered over the years have made a very capable aircraft to fulfill the role of fighter/bomber currently handled by the F-16, F-18 and AV8B Harrier. It is no match for the F-22 in regards to air-to-air, but is designed to carry bombs and perform ground support.

Read/watch better sources if you really are interested in aviation. If not then don't throw stones at what you don't have an honest picture of.

I watched a video on YouTube and it pronounced that it grew to become into available to make wall hangings out of knitting fog. Sorry, no longer attempting to make relaxing of you, yet for the final and very final time...and that i do desire you unfold the message...YouTube is a repository of opinion. you are able to never be useful of what's or isn't authentic. that's not only the blunders the video clips instruct to visitors, that's the blunders visitors additionally convey to the video clips. The F-22 isn't liable to rain. Why might or no longer that's? that's an all-climate fighter, and we've had all-climate combatants for some years. extreme failure each a million.7 hours? that's what i might call great-stable failure calculation, in case you're able to desire to anticipate a failure all the way down to each 6 minutes. And that's crap. If it had a extreme failure that regularly, it would never have been qualified. It very properly would, besides the shown fact that, require that lots maintenance....30 hours looks intense to me, that's greater what i might anticipate from a helicopter. The F-22s best issues suited now are that it is so costly and so progressed that they do no longer extremely yet comprehend a thank you to enforce it in a battlefield scenario with JTAC and unified forces. It would not yet have a attempt against checklist on which to base information or concepts for advancements, yet be certain, it is going to.

No. The thing about the internet...it's full of crazies and theories and and conspiracies...

Not all of it is true...in fact, most of it is untrue.

Don't believe everything you see or hear on TV or the internet...most of those videos are from MiG or Sukhoi fanboys who are jealous of the F-22...

honestly, there is only one way to find out. throw a couple J20s out and see who wins. Oh nevermind they still have 5 years till they can fight us in the air.

That's what you get with propaganda video's on Youtube.