Reuters reported that 12 F-22′s, the most advanced stealth air superiority fighters in the U.S. arsenal, have landed in Okinawa, Japan on Saturday for a four-month deployment. 

“The first of 12 high-tech U.S. F-22 fighter jets landed on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on Saturday, after U.S. President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister Taro Aso this week of Washington’s commitment to the defense of its Asian ally. Hamada said Japan was still considering buying more U.S. fighter jets but these would not be for an attack.”

YTN is reporting that these 12 aircraft, part of the 94th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, now bring the total number of F-22s at Kadena Air Force Base, Okinawa to thirty-six aircraft, or more than a quarter of all Raptors in the U.S. inventory. 

The other 24 Raptors belong to the original squadron, the famed 27th Squadron, which deployed in 2007, also from Langley Air Force Base.

What’s scary is that this enormous amount of fighter power could be either used to blunt a suprise land invasion by the North, or as a prelude to the first, help the U.S. carry out its own version of Operation Orchard. 

Fun fact.  The F-22 Raptor is capable of dropping a GPS-aided 1000 lb. Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) 24 nautical miles away from a small target and score a direct hit while flying in at a speed of mach 1.5 and an altitude of 50,000 feet.   It might be time for KJI to take a lesson from Saddam and crawl into a spider hole about now.

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