User blog comment:WolfgangBSC/The Random Chat Room/@comment-24787182-20160303001816/@comment-27404954-20160303013825

Harmon, despite the US military's absurdly massive defense budget, they still haven't made anything useful for at least two decades. All they've done is incrementally improve at best, and all the cool stuff like railguns and lasers aren't even ready yet, much less actually put on anything.

TL;DR:

The F-22 is an improvement, not something wholly new. And that's terrible.