Recent wargames with Canada's CF-18s and US F-22s and 35s, resulted in the Canadians being entirely wiped out. Not only did we not make a kill, we never even saw them.

10 years ago, the story was different. There is nothing wrong with out pilot's skills. Its what sort of plane we put them in. Even super hornets are not Gen 5. They would be toast in battle with gen 5s. To go any other way is to throw their lives away, because we were too cheap.