F-15 is better than an F-22 or an F-35

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원 제목은 Here's when an F-15 is better than an F-22 or an F-35

간단 요약하면....

15가 22나 35보나 낫을때가 있단 말야!!!!

스텔스 좋은데 짠! 하고 나타나서 적에게 우리 간다..!!!   나 가니까 비켜...

아니면 님! 나를 따라오삼 아니면 후회 할 듯 뭐 이런 작전을 해야 하는데...

첨단 스텔스기는 상대편이 님? 어디 계심? 안 보임....기타 등등 

그래서 이런 저런 용도로는 차라리 15가 더 낳아!!(15 빠로서...^^;)

이런 부분의 이야기를 보면 잠수함파!들에 대해서 항모파가 주장하는 이게 더 폼이 나쟎아!!!  하는 주장과 상통하는 이야기가 아닐런지...

In a recent interview with Business Insider, Justin Bronk, a Research Fellow specializing in combat airpower at the Royal United Services Institute, revealed why the F-15, originally introduced four decades ago, is still more useful than either the F-22 or the F-35 in certain situations.

The F-15 is a traditional air superiority fighter of the fourth generation. It's big, fast, agile, and carriers lots of weapons under the wing where everyone can see them. For that reason, it's terrible at stealth, but the other side of the coin is that it's perfect for intercepting enemy aircraft.

Bronk says that when it comes to interception, a plane would "have to get up right next to the aircraft, fly alongside, show weapons, go on guard frequency, tell them they're being intercepted, that they're on course to violate airspace, and to turn back immediately."

An F-22 or F-35 shouldn't, and in some cases, can't do that.

The major advantage of fifth generation aircraft is their stealth abilities and situational awareness. Even the best aircraft in the world would be lucky to lay eyes on any fifth generation fighter, which means that they can set up and control the engagement entirely on their terms.

But while this paradigm lends itself ideally to fighting and killing, interception is a different beast.

The advantages of the F-22, and particularly the F-35, greatly diminish once planes get within visual range of each other. Also, fifth gens usually carry their munitions inside internal bomb bays, which is great for stealth, but doesn't really strike the same note that starring down an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile on the side of an F-15 would.

Simply put, a fifth gen revealing itself to a legacy fighter would be akin to a hunter laying down his gun before confronting a wild beast.

An air-to-air view of two F-15 Eagle aircraft armed with AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles (wing pylons) and AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missiles. McDonnell Douglas, St. Louis

"Fifth gen fighters are not really necessary for that... other, cheaper interceptors can do the job," said Bronk.

Furthermore, interception happens way more frequently than air-to-air combat. The last time a US Air Force fighter shot down an enemy plane, it was their own wayward drone over Afghanistan in 2009. Meanwhile, interceptions happen all the time, with the Baltics and the South China Sea being particular hot spots.

The fifth-gens, however, make sense for entering contested air space. If the US wanted to enter North Korean, or Iranian air space, it wouldn't just be to show off, and according to Bronk, their stealth and situational awareness would afford them the opportunity to slip in hit their marks, and slip out undetected, unlike an F-15.

F-35s are incredible aircraft, but within visual range confrontations are not their fight.REUTERS/U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Remington Hall/Handout

In interception situations, it makes no sense to offer up an F-22 or F-35 as a handicapped target to an older legacy plane. F-15s are more than capable of delivering the message themselves, and whoever they intercept will know that the full force of the US Air Force, including fifth-gens, stands behind them.