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FURTHER F-22 PRODUCTION IS CRUCIAL TO WINNING FUTURE WARS.
hcobb schrieb:
On Aug 2, 1:19 am, Andre Ilausky wrote: Loren Thompson is not a woman. The fees the contractors pay him to pimp their products could Cite? So when he slams a program, like e.g. DDG-1000, Northrop Grumman, Bath Iron Works, Lockheed Martin, BAE, L-3 Communications, Raytheon etc just didn't pay him enough to pitch it? buy a very high class woman indeed. And here I thought you would like him: http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1274.shtml HOW THE AIR FORCE FELL SO FAR [...] The forced resignation of the Air Force's top civilian and uniform leaders last week is the latest chapter in a chronicle of decline that has been unfolding for decades. [...] |
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FURTHER F-22 PRODUCTION IS CRUCIAL TO WINNING FUTURE WARS.
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 08:34:38 -0700 (PDT), Michel
wrote: FURTHER F-22 PRODUCTION IS CRUCIAL TO WINNING FUTURE WARS. http://lexingtoninstitute.org/1294.shtml (SNIP) Not relevant now, but I'd feel safer if it were Northrop F-23s coming off the assembly line. It made me nervous when Lockheed took over General Dynamics, for Lockheed's sake. Despite GD's great success with the F-16, they became the king of cost overruns with the A-12, resulting in cancellation (?) of the program by our pal Dick Cheney (also responsible for destroying the tooling for the SR-71). Now the F-22 looks like "A-12 Lite". True, we have actual functional aircraft being produced, but at a huge cost, with all the technology we can cram in per square inch. Does tech = a robust aircraft? Rumsfeld thought tech equaled or substituted for troop numbers, "the electronic battlefield", etc., etc. Works great in theory, and in practice most of the time, but apparently can be overcome by what are in comparison primitive countermeasures (IEDs). Not in any way disputing airworthiness or performance, but the Intl Date Line debacle was hard to believe given the cost per unit aircraft. Kind of like sending F-4s to Vietnam with no guns. Assuming equal stealth (if the Russkis have a plasma equivalent), what's the outcome of an Su-35 vs. F-22? Minus the hype. please. How many F-22s could we afford to lose should a newly enriched Russian Federation or the PRC choose to mass produce the Sukoi supermanuverable models? T.L. Davis |
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