Posted on 04/06/2009 10:52:31 AM PDT by jazusamo
So, anyone who’s concerned about the insanely escalating costs of hi-tech military gear is disloyal.
F*** you, colonel.
Okay, I might be able to buy the fact that the F22 is essential for air superiority over the likes of North Korea and Iran (though don’t we have that already even without the F22?), but what’s the point of having air superiority over Russia and China these days?
Any war against either of these two nuclear powers would immediately devolve into lobbing hundreds of nukes at each other from long range. Lack of F22s would be the least of our problems at that point.
Supposing the Islamofascists get complete control of Pakistan and its nukes. You don’t think we just might need some sophisticated weapons to take out the Pak. military? You think we might not need them to take out the Iranian nukes? Or the N. Korean offensive capability? We are very stupid if we think our only enemies are a bunch of towelheads in Afghanistan. Our real enemies, China and Russia, use surrogates like Iran and DPRK to tie us down and waste our resources while they continue to build up their forces.
your wording cracked me up... who is Congress planning to prematurely kill? Wouldn't impeachment be a better option?
Yes, we don’t have enough 5th generation fighters.
The rotary winged division of Aerospatiale became Eurocopter. The rest of Aerospatiale was absorbed into EADS.
LoL! I see now. Dang that dangling modifier. ;-)
BTTT
"Professor"?
You ought to be sitting in the corner of the classroom with a dunce cap on.
Notice I refrained from stringing certain words together so that search engines wouldn’t be able to accuse FR of plotting something (via bad grammar).
I predict there are going be lots of layoffs soon in Connecticut... probably lots of Obama UNION voters!
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20090224.aspx
It’s only partly the per unit cost, the F-22 is something of a white elephant that is expensive to maintain with shrinking military budgets.
You don't know scat. Neither the Corps or NAVAIR was ever interested in the F-22.
Thanks for your links, Norm. I just can’t buy Gates’ reasoning on this and wonder if he really believes it.
“Any war against either of these two nuclear powers would immediately devolve into lobbing hundreds of nukes at each other from long range”
That sounds so DU; illogical, simple minded, and defeatist. What makes you think a war with China turns into a nuke fest? You really think the leaders of China want to rule over radioactive waste?
If Russia and China are able to develop stealth fighters then they can sell them to the likes of Iran and North Korea and hence we need the F-22.
95,000 jobs lost
Are these the “saved” or the “created” jobs that Obambi promised.
I’ve seen the F22 at airshows. It’s unreal. Hope that the new president in ‘12 restarts the line (ala Reagan and the B1).
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