You know, I've been thinking about this lately. Sure, in BVR the Raptor would be at an advantage. Stealth, ARH missiles, super cruise, etc. etc. etc. There probably would be no need for a dogfight.
I've also heard, however, that the F-22 is second to none in ACM and BFM. How so? It can only be good at that type of thing to a point. Short of changing physics, making the plane out of some fictional alien space craft alloy, or creating some sort of anti-G bubble for the pilot, what else can you do? What exactly makes the F-22 so much more manueverable than the F-16? Can it all be chaulked up to thrust-vectoring nozzles and such?
