"Scott Ferrin" wrote in message
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"i am participating in the newsgroup rec.aviation.military where the
discussion centers around the existence or lack thereof of "strakes"
or "air dams" in and around the vertical stabilizers of the F22.

the general consensus is that there were some affixed temporarily
after a problem was discovered,

So, in fact, reguardless of your partisan pratle, there were strakes on the
F-22.