After nearly 2 decades in service, the F-22 has its first air-to-air kills — neither against the jets it was designed to fight

• The F-22, the top US air superiority fighter jet, finally has it's first air-to-air kills.
• In a week, this jet downed a Chinese spy balloon and an unidentified "object" in two separate engagements.
• Neither kill was a jet that the F-22 was designed to fight.

It took nearly two decades in service for the F-22 Raptor to record its first air-to-air kills — both of which have come within the past week, but neither kill was against the jets it was actually designed to fight.