gambit, lets go back to the point of argument, dont drive too far off.
you still playing the old trick, "I can not convince you, I will confuse you.". I read your link and replies carefully, those are unprofessional reply. not convince at all.
first, you win the game, then you say certainly is since the rule is good, when you lose the game, you said something else that blame "almost meaningless", let me borrow your word once, "LOL"! In an international contest with Germany Typhoon invited, do you think the game rule is not fare? the rules were not evaluated, passed by both sides? I doubt it. if the rules were not meaningful, what was the point to try?
2nd, in some domestic long range trial, the F22 may carry your device 'Luneberg lens' to keep the bird in track, for short distance WBR, who needs it? lets say the front RCS of F22 is baseball size, Typhoon can detects in 30km, or can engage it in 20+km. IRST (Infra-Red Search and Track) system is a backup to keep F22 under control. and by the way, dogfighting, how many chance F22 can nose to nose face the Typhoon? everyone already aware the side, the top, the bottom, and from the rear F22 has much large RSC. arguing the Typhoon can not lock and kill F22 is glossy under estimate Germany.
I am actually interested on the score ratio, if Typhoon make "several kills" were clean kills in that day, I will say my goodness.... God bless the F22.
Ok, I am not an American, nor have I any "considerable" experience with the F-22. I will however try to explain to you a couple of things as I know them.
First of all, no aircraft is an absolute killer of all.
Aircraft are built according to a very specific requirement and are trying to meet this requirement.
To understand better, think of the F-15.
The F-15 is an air superiority fighter plane. Its primary mission is to achieve air superiority over the given battle space.
If one carefully examines the F-15 however, one will notice that the F-15 is not a dedicated dogfighter. That doesn't mean it cannot dogfight. It means it is not the best in dogfights. Other planes have the lead on the dogfighting skills and that is not necessarily a bad thing.
If I were to enter a dogfighting training exercise, I would choose an F-16 or even better a MiG-29. These two planes are far better dogfighters than the F-15.
If I needed to hit the enemy air assets hard over the battle space and deny them operations over a given area for a given time however I would be forced to use the F-15. Higher capability Radar, higher weapons load, more fuel etc etc.
When you consider the F-22 you have a higher expression of the air-superiority fighter, the air supremacy fighter.
That means that the F-22 can use its major advantages, VLO, passive target tracking, supercruise, to its advantage in order to carry out a number of high probability kills on a significant number of enemy assets.
If an F-22 has scored let's say a 50% kill rate with its medium range weapons and can see due to its excellent situational awareness capabilities that an enemy plane (for argument's sake we will call it a MiG-29) is nearing a range were its weapons and sensors can pose a threat. I can tell you with a reasonable degree of certainty that any pilot would take the easy option out,
in other words, use the fact that you have momentum due to your high speed, alter course and put distance between yourself and the potentially dangerous target, use the fact that you have VLO and higher fuel load on your side, and when you have achieved a safe distance again, turn, target and fire on the target.
Just because the F-22 is currently the most dangerous fighter plane we know, doesn't mean it has to be used carelessly or that it is untouchable. It is deadly out of a combination of technology and tactics.