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To: Heliand; Oldexpat
India has more fighters on order? And your point is we face some dire threat from India that we need to counter? otherwise, who cares?

No, the point is: India is going to end up with more new fighters than we will have; Russia's production lines are working, and they have a new design out that just flew.

The world did not stop when the F-22 came out; our enemies did not throw up their hands and say GAME OVER.

They're working on counters to our new planes. And they will keep their production lines open, and they will sell them to our enemies. The F-22 may be more capable for the time being, but its numbers have now been capped. And as capable as the Raptor is, they can get overwhelmed by numbers. That's a lesson Russia learned some time back. Don't think others didn't take notice.

36 posted on 02/04/2010 8:44:18 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird

Since when were Russia and India our enemies?


51 posted on 02/05/2010 9:47:48 AM PST by Heliand
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