F-22 would prosecute air war first, then "switch weapons" for ground targets

MULTI-MISSION: There likely wouldn't be a fleet of F-22 fighters dedicated to the air-to-ground mission, like today's F-15Es, says Maj. Gen. Claude M. Bolton Jr., Air Force fighter and bomber program executive officer. The idea, he says, will be "to prosecute the [air-to-air war] first, then, when...

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