"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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John Cook wrote:

http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/new...s/03224wna.xml
...and they have stripped other projects to keep F/A-22 alive.

No wonder they need more money than the Navy and Marines combined
(killing off American shipbuilding until at least 2009), anybody know
what inside the Force itself has been gutted to feed this beast?

Do I hear the shrill call of the rare Purple Crested Cobb Crow?


As a contributing factor, the GAO report contends that adding an
air-to-ground attack capability to the F/A-22 will cost $11.7 billion.

Avleak just doesn't get that the $11.7 billion is also to fix fatal
flaws in the air-to-air role, right Kevin?

Actually, if you *read* the article, they explain what that $11.7 billion is
directed at--spiral development, to include air-to-air modifications, ISR
modifications, etc. Henry, you need to pay more attention to that whole
reading comprehension thingie.


you come to what I refer to as a 'regional bomber' that might have
range that is something like 75% of the B-2. The FB-22 is in that
class.

Given that we've got basing rights in 130 countries it shouldn't be hard
to find someplace in each region to base a regional bomber in. As long
as the President is a uniter, not a divider.

Extending your dim-witted lunges into the field of politics now, eh Henry?
What, you are done trying to "square away" all of those
less-intelligent-than-you-are folks in the USN and USAF?


THE UPGRADED F/A-22 air-to-ground capability will produce a stealth
aircraft able to "defeat modern surface-to-air missiles" like the
SA-20 or S-400 family and to track and attack moving targets

Won't the Raptor-Weasel still need Growlers? And shouldn't the JSF make
at least as good a Weasel?

No, you obviously did not read the article; (sigh)....

Brooks


-HJC