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5. Buy foreign?

Not a hope, but out of interest - if forced to which would the US
prefer Typhoon, Rafale, or a Russian jobbie.


At the moment, Rafale is the only true modern high efficient mutirole
aircraft !
Typhoon has never been designed to carry out air to ground missions.
Russian are nice looking but ...

If the Russians raise their MTBF numbers with an electric FCS they will be
right back in it.

Well, will F35 do the job ?

Probably. It all depends on how well the program migrated from mil-spec to
the RPL model and how well problems down flow are mitigated. Otherwise the
F-35 is as screwed as the F-22.

Some F-15 life extension will be necessary during the gap, or F-18s for the
USAF.