[sukhoi-30mki]

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway speaking at a ceremony last week marking the rollout of the JSF STOVL verison.

Photo: Lockheed Martin

[VOA]

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[Prophet in the wilderness]

Beautiful plane.... that, and the F-22 ... great birds.

[PAR35]

with vertical take-off and landing capabilities.

In the reporter's defense, English might not be his first language. In any event, he should start lurking at FR so he can find some background info for his stories.

[Rembrandt]

I believe the U.S. is preparing to de-commission one or more A/C carriers. We should consider a sale or lend lease of that(those) carrier(s) to Israel.

[sinanju]

Can we rely on them not to sell it to the Chicoms this time?

Remember the Lavi? Built with our money. Now the J-10 “Chengdu.”

[flowerplough]

Forgive me for mentioning Israelis and money in the same sentence, but I do hope they don’t buy too many 35Bs. Pilot-carrying military aircraft just don’t seem to have a very promising future. F-22 Raptor, $200 million, MQ-1/9 Predator or Reaper, $15 million. And the unmanneds will get smaller and chaeper, over time, too.

[Vroomfondel]

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