'Pentagon's F-22 buy may signal export'

The Jerusalem Post ^ | Dec 15, 2008 0:31 | By YAAKOV KATZ

[homeguard]

The Israel Air Force is hopeful that a new Pentagon plan to buy 60 F-22 stealth fighter jets will include a push to end a congressional ban on exporting the stealth aircraft, senior defense officials have told The Jerusalem Post. The F-22 can avoid radar...

The F-22 can avoid radar detection. Photo: Courtesy Slideshow: Pictures of the week

"If the F-22 is made available, we will bring it here as soon as possible, no matter what the price is," a top IAF officer said last week. "To have strong deterrence and to win a conflict, we need to have the best aircraft in existence."

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[cripplecreek]

Israel, Great Britain, Australia, and Canada.

[valkyry1]

If anyone needs them Israel does

[null and void]

I doubt we’d sell them if we didn’t have a way to detect them.

[valkyry1]

Israel, Great Britain, Australia, and Canada

I'll go with that. 

[Born to Conserve]

Great Britain, Australia, and Canada.

[cripplecreek]

We’ve got other friends but they’ll have to wait a while to prove it can last.

[ChetNavVet]

The IAF wants them, but really dosen’t need them as much as they portend. The deal is if they want them they have till Jan 20 to get them.

[GSP.FAN]

I have not figured how to post pics but that is one hot looking jet..

Could someone do the honour?

[dartuser]

If the F-22 is made available, we will bring it here as soon as possible, no matter what the price is

Lockheed Martin ping ...

[rahbert]

and Japan.

[MovementConservative]

Why should Canada bother? They don’t need much more than a skeleton military. They have the US as a defacto military. For that matter so does Mexico.

[Gene Eric]

>> I have not figured how to post pics but that is one hot looking jet..

This is my favorite pic:

[happinesswithoutpeace]

/mark

[RC one]

I thought the F-35 was for export and the F-22 was ours. What was the point of developing the F-35 if we’re going to export the F-22? Last I knew, Britain was mad about us not allowing them access to proprietary computer codes or some such thing. I say the F-22 is ours and the F-35 is for our allies.

[Larry381]

I have no problem selling almost any weapons system to Israel.
As to the F-22, rumors are that Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Japan, Australia and a few others, (Poland, Belgium?) have inquired about buying them

[Marine_Uncle]

"Israel, Great Britain, Australia, and Canada."
And that is it. No one else. Period.

[null and void]

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