This is all well and fine assuming you have enough F-22s. We don't. There's an infamous RAND study involving a conflict over the Strait of Taiwan: http://www.

This is all well and fine assuming you have enough F-22s. We don't. There's an infamous RAND study involving a conflict over the Strait of Taiwan: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/rgs_dissertations/2011/RAND_RGSD267.pdf http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/rgs_dissertations/... The tl;dr of it is that even assuming F-22s could score a perfect 1:1 missiles fired to kill ratio while perfectly evading all enemy missiles, the simple fact of the matter is that they'd get overwhelmed by the sheer number of enemy aircraft and run out of munitions. And then the airfields get destroyed and it doesn't matter how good your air superiority fighters are if they don't have anywhere to operate out of.