F-22 Raptors sit on the flight line at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii Feb. 12, 2007. The F-22Õs and more than 250 Airmen from the 27th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Va., are bound for Kadena Air Base, Japan, for the aircraftÕs first overseas operational deployment. Wikipedia
Top Air Force General Doesn't Know If F-22 Successor Will Even Fly -- Washington Examiner
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh doesn't know if the successor to the F-22 Raptor, the Air Force's fifth generation fighter, will fly.
"I don't even know that it's an airplane," Welsh told reporters Wednesday morning. "I wouldn't try and characterize it or describe it. I have no idea yet what it's going to look like, even is, whether it flies, or whether it's a combination of things — just don't know."
Welsh said that Air Force officials have to begin thinking about "what does air superiority look like 30 years from now" because the government doesn't react quickly enough to be prepared with the necessary technology if the research doesn't begin very far in advance.
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My Comment: I thought the F-35 was going to be not only the successor to the F-22 .... but even better. I guess not.
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