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To: Sine_Pari

WE got the stealth - they don’t.

And it costs mucho bucks. But Peters would have us in aluminum reflectors.


15 posted on 02/15/2013 8:59:24 PM PST by oldbill
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To: oldbill

I think you missed my point. Peters may be an uninformed fool who may want our pilots flying tin cans yet that does not answer my questions. If air superiority via better aircraft boils down to who has the best longest looking targeting radar systems with commensurate air-to-air missiles on board AND our stealth aircraft still require suppression of air defenses to operate, then why spend all that money on them? Sounds to me like the technology is vulnerable and may not be worth the expense. We need to remain ahead technologically yet weapons procurement sometimes appear to be corporate job programs/cash cows, particularly in the military aircraft business. Things to ponder.

Regards.


16 posted on 02/16/2013 5:04:32 AM PST by Sine_Pari
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To: oldbill
Oh, one more thing, they do too have stealth. Check the Chinese Chengdu J-20 out:



Regards.
17 posted on 02/16/2013 5:12:20 AM PST by Sine_Pari
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