all about move and counter move ad infinitum.

These days manuverability is a moot ability to have, good for airshows but the cold reality of today's networkcentric warfare is that all the warfighters assets are networked, they see what each other is seeing, they are co-ordinated and they do not have any need to get into a knife fight in a phone booth.

Simply sit quiet, take the feeds in and when the diamond locks on pickle the weapons till the targets go away. Target will only know about it in the last few seconds when the slammer goes active, assuming it is in radar mode then, it may be in infared or it may be in home on jam mode.

Only drwback at this stage is the range of the slammer but from what I have read Phoenix class range capabilities are not far away.


This is also assuming that an actual weapon is deployed and that the F22 is not sitting quiet, unseen, unheard hacking into it's opponents systems and planting nasty little worms. It is a an airborne hacking machine with some very nasty capabilities in that area.