Thread: F-22 Raptor, What the hell are we doing?
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Old 05-12-2008, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by t_BuckeyeScott View Post
The biggest question about the other planes was the stealthiness. The Raptor's radar footprint can be indecipherable to that of a bird depending on the payload being carried.
The reason for the contract going to the Raptor was not performance based. It had to do with contracts the other company already had on its plate.

Think of it in the same way the SAW and the M-16 got into the Army inventory; chosen for the wrong damn reasons.
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