Emmanuel Gustin wrote:


Somehow I have the feeling that the F/A-22 is also going to
be defensive in purpose and home-based in operation. With
a force of probably less than 200 operational aircraft, few
will be available for operations outside the 'homeland'.

Nope. If you do it right, you'd need only one squadron at
home, used for training. The rest could be used to bring
the nastiness to the bad guys - FAR from "the homeland".