The world’s most expensive fighter aircraft was delivered to the US air force last week amid criticism that its role is already obsolete and that a new generation of cheaper aircraft can do its job nearly as well.
The F/A-22 Raptor was dreamed up in the 1980s to counter fighter aircraft that the Soviet Union was planning to build. But while the Soviet designs were junked after the collapse of communism, the American designs survived.
The plane is a manoeuvrable stealth jet capable of hitting air and ground targets, destroying cruise missiles, and sustained flight at supersonic speeds. But this…
