[Rodney King]

Richard Cheney, planned to phase out of the F-14 program and, apparently to ensure there would be no second thoughts, ordered the destruction of all F-14 tooling. Incredible!

What is wrong with these people? The other day I learned on FR that LBJ destroyed the SR-71 molds. What the hell would have happened if war with China broke out in 1997? We would have wanted to pump out some new F-14's fast. This is gross negligence we are talking about here.

[lepton]

What the hell would have happened if war with China broke out in 1997? We would have wanted to pump out some new F-14's fast. This is gross negligence we are talking about here.

Or maybe the negligence has been in not having a replacement for an early 1970s aircraft by the late 1990s. What's the usual operational life? We just stopped developing reasonable platforms for a couple of decades.