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1 posted on 03/04/2009 3:57:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Israel will buy them. As will Australia.


2 posted on 03/04/2009 3:59:03 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
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USA Today article:

Raptor in dogfight for its future

3 posted on 03/04/2009 3:59:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama is determined to gut our military.


4 posted on 03/04/2009 3:59:54 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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And from Gizmodo:

The F-22 Raptor May Be Replaced By...Sniper Blimps?

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Originally designed to fight the Soviets in WWIII, the F-22 Raptor has never seen combat. And now, Barack Obama needs to decide whether to keep building them or kill the plane forever.

Lots of Jobs on the line....

6 posted on 03/04/2009 4:02:53 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (What happened to my IRAs)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Not a very good idea to throw away military supremacy right now.
China to increase defence spending by 15 per cent
11 posted on 03/04/2009 4:10:28 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“that money for big-dollar weapons systems like the F-22 will be cut.”

We’ll only buy three of them since that’s what military genius Obama thinks is all we need.


12 posted on 03/04/2009 4:16:32 PM PST by yazoo
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This email was forwarded to me by a buddy who's retired Air Force.

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FIRST FA-22 FIGHTERS DELIVERED TO LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE. These are great in-flight photos of the FA-22 as the first aircraft delivery was being made to Langley AFB in Va. Langley is to be first operational AFB for the FA-22. It is a very beautiful AFB, located in a picturesque location, as you can see in these photos, near Norfolk and Hampton, Va.

The aircraft flying along with the FA-22 in the last of these photos is the F-15, which will be replaced by the FA-22 which is several times better. In actual In-flight (simulated) combat operations against the F-15, two FA-22s were able to operate without detection while they went head to head against (8) F-15s. The FA-22s scored missile hits (kills) against all the F-15 Aircraft and the F/A-22s were never detected by either the F-15s or ground based radar. Maj. Gen. Rick Lewis said: 'The Raptor operated against all adversaries with virtual impunity; ground based systems couldn't engage and NO adversary aircraft survived'!

FA-22 --- America 's most advanced fighter aircraft for the 21st Century! They're a titanium and carbon fiber dagger. They're so advanced that if their on-board locator is switched off even our own satellites can lose track of them. They're the first military aircraft ever built that is equipped with a 'black-out button'. What that means is this: The best conditioned fighter pilots are capable of maintaining consciousness up to in the vicinity of 15+ G. The Raptor is capable of making 22+ G turns. If someday an adversary builds a missile that is capable of catching up to one of these airplanes and a Raptor pilot sees that a strike is imminent, he hits the 'b.o.b.' and the airplane makes a virtual U-turn, leaving the missile to pass right on by. They know that in the process he'll temporarily lose consciousness, so the Raptor then automatically comes back to straight and level flight until he wakes back up.

Amazing, and Obama wants to kill this weapon? I still cannot believe this man is our president.

14 posted on 03/04/2009 4:33:51 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The 9/11 hijackers attacked the United States Military, the American economy, and attempted to attack our civilian government.

Zero has:

1) Crushed the stock market

2) Compromised the civilian government with the appointment of numerous incompetent crooks

3) Is attempting to gut the military.

Coincidence?

I think NOT!

16 posted on 03/04/2009 4:38:02 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

What about the lost jobs?!

Dumbass.


24 posted on 03/04/2009 5:22:00 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

But, are these people not working? Wouldn’t it be counterproductive to lay off people with so much Porkulus money from our grandchildren’s earnings?


27 posted on 03/04/2009 5:40:44 PM PST by Dapper 26
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Carter killed the B-1. The F-22 is 0bama’s B-1. I mean, if we weren’t armed, everyone would love us.


28 posted on 03/04/2009 5:41:53 PM PST by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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