I want a F-22A for Christmas

random hardware

From a Forum I was reading today:

The F-22A has two redundant CIPs, each powered by Intel i960 RISC microprocessor and VHSICDSP chipsets, with fiber-optic links used for transferring data between the CIPs and sensors. It’s capable of 700 mips, which makes it roughly equivilent to a Pentium III. A modern core 2 duo is about 10x faster. If the mips of the CIP is determined to be a limiting factor, it will be replaced, but the new technology is fickle as you know- I mean, who among us has not had a computer die out from under them? The F-22A has to fight in a very hostile environment, and has to use extremely robust industrial components that you can literally hit with hammer blows and flash with nuclear EMP and they still keep working.

“The only way an F-15 eagle is going to get in there and kill an F-22 Raptor, is if the Eagle has a driver with 3,000--- hours, and the raptor driver is fresh from HOT training. Also, it would have to be 2 on 1. And the raptor driver had to have drunk the whole night before. And he drank during the flight. Also he passed out.” - Anonymous F-15 pilot