You mean by the 1991 when S U broke up and the whole Soviet AF came to a standstill..? :very_drunk:
It was the bloddy 90’s that killed of any further production of the F-22!
What, facing off against vanilla Flankers operating the grainy N001V radar, no ECM capability. Vanilla A-50 with full analoge suite. Everything in Soviet early-warning in the early 90’s was Analoge systems, and they where all operating out of a doctrine which meant being directed by ground based HQ POV.
This lasted well until 2005 before thing slowly started to happen, SLOWLY!
The F-22 would have a field day operating in such enviroment.
Nah, its a much much more contested airspace now that there are several new Voronezh early radar stations, A-50U with is fully digital suite. VKS flankers operating with N011M radars and Irbis. New Mig-31BM with new systems.
You now got R-77-1 missiles to worry about. you got 4 new S-400 regiments inside Russia. And still much much more to come with PakFa and a new doctrine VKS will no doubt adopt.
You are making my point.
The ATF program specifications/KPP´s were laid out before the Berlin Wall, the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union came crashing down. The reason why its production was savagely cut was because the scenario in wich it was suposed to operate had disapeared and the aircraft was a massive overkill for whatever capability any OPFOR could throw at it throught the nineties and the 2000´s.
The scenario in wich the Raptor was suposed to operate was Central Europe behind the first echelons of the Warsaw Pact in the late nineties, beggining of the 2000´s and that theoretical enviroment was vastly more chalenging than anything Russia can muster today, things like evolved Flankers, Fulcrum´s, Foxhound´s, long range active AAM´s and SAM´s, a new generation of fighters, the MFI would be in active sqn´s, etc, etc, etc, all that in numbers severall orders of magnitude higher than what today´s VVS has and on an operational theather the size of a mail stamp, the number of of sensor/shooter´s by square mile in that scenario (the exact same of the RDA/Poland/Checoslovaquia area in 1985, only with much better hardware) makes today´s Kaliningrad look like a joy ride.
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