Yet Another F-22 Mission

This article revels yet another use for the F-22, which really does seem to have capabilities far beyond any predecessor. What I find inexplicable however, is that the Air Force expects the F-22 to fill all of its roles. (this is starting to remind me of the Navy and the Superhornet) It if works, great. But The Air Force is only expecting to get 183 airframes, and several of these are allocated to training and tactics development. So, to begin with the F-22 has to replace over 500 F-15Cs in the Air-to-Air role, then it has to support the F-15E and F-16 in the attack role. In addition, the USAF then decided it could take over the role of the F-117 (although, it now appears that the Nightwawk retirement will be pushed back a few years), and now it sees the Raptor assuming the EW role that was left vacant by the EF-111 ten years ago. I fail to see that the Raptor is THAT good, where it will be able to replace over 700 aircraft with these small numbers. My confidence in the DoD to deal with the forthcoming "train wreck" continues to erode.