No, if the U.S. needs to attack a nation like Iran or Syria, we will do overwhlemingly better at securing air superiority than we did in 1991. Their pilots are

No, if the U.S. needs to attack a nation like Iran or Syria, we will do overwhlemingly better at securing air superiority than we did in 1991. Their pilots are more poorly trained, fewer in number, and less connected to a functional comprehensive air defense system than Iraq in 1991. It's nice that you know the NATO designation of a few old SAM systems, but that's mostly orthogonal to the question of whether we need F-22s. The U.S. system of establishing air superiority is just that: A system, of which air superiority fighters are just one piece. The system is unmatched in the world. And you've been watching too much Top Gun, kiddo.