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our economy can support damn near anything the Military wants or needs. What we CANNOT support, is the welfare state, and the influx of a third of the mexican population. Bingo!
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As to the aircraft, remember that one of the most (if not THE most) successful jet fighter of all time, the F-4 Phantom served both the Navy and USAF very well, not to mention over two dozen air forces and the Royal Navy as well. But not all the services had a hand in, or more accurately a finger in the pie, of its development. It was a Navy aircraft that the Air Force decided it liked. Even the Air Force versions still had the things like the heavy gear and the tail hook. It is easier to go from an aircraft developed for naval use to air force use than vice versa. All the services getting involved in the initial development of an aircraft is a recipe for disaster. The F-15 line is still open too. The best F-15s ever built are being sold to the Saudis and a few others right now. Upgrade the engines, the avionics, and add a few goodies like thrust vectoring and the F-15 would be the equal of the F-22 in most ways except stealth and have the advantage of being the most proven fighter air frame in service right now. The F-15's being sold to the Saudi's are NOT the best. We see them a downgraded export version, and keep the best electronics and avionics for ourselves. As for European Aircraft doing well in exercises vs. the F-22, you have to understand how those exercises were run. While I was in Japan, our F-16's would participate in exercises vs. the Japanese Mitsubishi F-1's. There is absolutely no comparison between the capabilities of these two aircraft, so in order to make the exercises "fair", The F-16's were prohibited from using their best radar and ECM capabilities, and were prohibited from using their afterburners. Today, Similar restrictions are places upon the F-22 during exercises, partially because we don't want uninvited spectators seeing their full capabilities. As for a low-level mud fighter, we have one. It's called the F-16.
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As to the aircraft, remember that one of the most (if not THE most) successful jet fighter of all time, the F-4 Phantom served both the Navy and USAF very well, not to mention over two dozen air forces and the Royal Navy as well. But not all the services had a hand in, or more accurately a finger in the pie, of its development. It was a Navy aircraft that the Air Force decided it liked. Even the Air Force versions still had the things like the heavy gear and the tail hook. It is easier to go from an aircraft developed for naval use to air force use than vice versa. All the services getting involved in the initial development of an aircraft is a recipe for disaster. The F-15 line is still open too. The best F-15s ever built are being sold to the Saudis and a few others right now. Upgrade the engines, the avionics, and add a few goodies like thrust vectoring and the F-15 would be the equal of the F-22 in most ways except stealth and have the advantage of being the most proven fighter air frame in service right now. The F-15's being sold to the Saudi's are NOT the best. We see them a downgraded export version, and keep the best electronics and avionics for ourselves. As for European Aircraft doing well in exercises vs. the F-22, you have to understand how those exercises were run. While I was in Japan, our F-16's would participate in exercises vs. the Japanese Mitsubishi F-1's. There is absolutely no comparison between the capabilities of these two aircraft, so in order to make the exercises "fair", The F-16's were prohibited from using their best radar and ECM capabilities, and were prohibited from using their afterburners. Today, Similar restrictions are places upon the F-22 during exercises, partially because we don't want uninvited spectators seeing their full capabilities. As for a low-level mud fighter, we have one. It's called the F-16. The point you made vis a vis the Saudi F-15's being sold with inferior systems is kinda moot. They can go on the international market and acquire systems easily as capable as a stock US version. Its just an upgrade is all and they have plenty of $. The Israelis do it all the time. In fact in many cases their versions are better. F-15 and F-16's. Newer better tech these days comes along quick. I suspect that a lot of this discussion is futile as the capabilities of the F-35 are NOT all out there for public consumption. Or the F-22's for that matter. Classified info. However the die appears to have been cast so prudence would dictate the politicians get off their asses and put the F-35 into full scale production and not the batch buy version. Bring the costs down thru volume buys. Letting politicians/services run these deals is a recipe for disaster. The recent track history has been a series of fiascoes in so many different programs. Huge waste of $'s. Jorge l'm sure can attest to that. Set up a independent org. to poll the services and get what they need done in the most timely and efficient manner with an eye to practicality and keeping costs in line. Political feather bedding just kills the process.. period. Senators fighting to get the programs or portions thereof in their backyards regardless of how it affects the costs. There are a lot more issues besides that one...but l'm sure you get the picture.
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Jorge, curious your thoughts on something like th old F-5 series....cheap, easy to fix, and due to its small size and high maneuverability one hell of a lil dogfighter....think some program like this would be ideal for our needs.....especially given its ability to use chitty runways would think SOMETHING along these lines would be handy in places like Afghanistan where troops on the ground seem to benefit from someone buzzing around providing some close air support...
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rattler, maybe the likes of PRM will chime in but if memory serves, the F-5 ( Tigershark?)lost to tje F-16? that said, I'm all for more of the lower priced jets and combined with our training, will still allow us to retain the edge over any adversary.
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rattler, maybe the likes of PRM will chime in but if memory serves, the F-5 ( Tigershark?)lost to tje F-16? that said, I'm all for more of the lower priced jets and combined with our training, will still allow us to retain the edge over any adversary. The F-16 has twice the max take off weight and all we have to do if we want to make more is flip the switch.
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rattler, maybe the likes of PRM will chime in but if memory serves, the F-5 ( Tigershark?)lost to tje F-16? that said, I'm all for more of the lower priced jets and combined with our training, will still allow us to retain the edge over any adversary. Pretty sure that was the F20
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rattler, maybe the likes of PRM will chime in but if memory serves, the F-5 ( Tigershark?)lost to tje F-16? that said, I'm all for more of the lower priced jets and combined with our training, will still allow us to retain the edge over any adversary. Pretty sure that was the F20 Yep F-20 Tiger Shark It was a totally new aircraft but looked very similar to the F-5. It was a gamble that lost out to the F-16 for foreign sales. Boeing says they can keep the Super bug line open till 2020 (F-18 F+G models) But Lockheed announced today that another block of F-35's were sold. The Pentagon's F-35 program office said the deal includes 29 jets for the United States and 14 for five other countries: Israel, Japan, Norway, Britain and Italy. Once production of those jets is completed, more than 200 F-35s will be in operation by eight countries, according to the office that runs the $399 billion F-35 program for the Pentagon.
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The question is, do we need as much advantage as the F-22 & 35 have.
Do you carry a 22 for self defense? Do you "NEED" as much advantage as you get from a larger caliber? Do you realize how silly your question sounds? Does your carry piece cost $100 million dollars? Do you realize how silly your question sounds? If it had as many parts as an F-22 it probably would I don't carry a $99 Jennings 25 either
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rattler, maybe the likes of PRM will chime in but if memory serves, the F-5 ( Tigershark?)lost to tje F-16? that said, I'm all for more of the lower priced jets and combined with our training, will still allow us to retain the edge over any adversary. Pretty sure that was the F20 Thanks, I knew they were similar, just couldn't remember. The F-16's a great airplane for the money.
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A single F-22 might be worth ten F-15s but 2,500 F-15s beat 180 F-22s all day. You assert that, but do they really? 2500 F-15's require 2500 pilots, Per flight hour maintance cost on an F-22 are about 68k per hour vs the F-15's 42k per hour. If you figure an average 200 flight hours per pilot per year, your plan cost the tax payers an extra 33 billion per year just in flight hours, not counting initial pilot training, pay, benefits, and facilities cost for the extra 2,320 airframes. So when you consider the total cost of ownership for the capabilities imparted, your "cheap" F-15's are not looking so cheap any more. I don't disagree with all that, but tell Congress. Tell the taxpayer. I figure we don't need that many aircraft anyway. Like I said in another post, there are only two or three potential adversaries in the whole world who couldn't be soundly defeated today with the air force we took to Vietnam. But what happens when those two or three adversaries join forces? And then add a dozen more smaller adversaries? It's not like coalitions of countries are unheard of in recent history.
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The question is, do we need as much advantage as the F-22 & 35 have.
Do you carry a 22 for self defense? Do you "NEED" as much advantage as you get from a larger caliber? Do you realize how silly your question sounds? Does your carry piece cost $100 million dollars? Do you realize how silly your question sounds? If it had as many parts as an F-22 it probably would I don't carry a $99 Jennings 25 either Alot of guys here do have $1,000+ carry pieces, and load it with defensive ammo that is a buck a round.
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... tactically and strategically, we're better off building 2000 F-16s v 100 22s/ If we had 100 F-22s, how many would be ready to fly on any given day?
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Our military could have everything they wanted or dreamed of.. if congress would just switch the welfare budget and the Pentagon budget....
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1. Don't assume
2. I see you are you now talking about the F-35
3. Glad to see you have come back to earth after the "dumbassitude" comment.
4. In any economic discussion regarding our country, Constitutionally speaking, our military should receive the very best. What is the very best, 1500 Tigers or 50,000 Shermans? Neither. The correct answer is the T-34. How about a gazillion drones flown by 6th graders who will work for a free supply of Mountain Dew. That is the future.
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1. Don't assume
2. I see you are you now talking about the F-35
3. Glad to see you have come back to earth after the "dumbassitude" comment.
4. In any economic discussion regarding our country, Constitutionally speaking, our military should receive the very best. What is the very best, 1500 Tigers or 50,000 Shermans? Neither. The correct answer is the T-34. How about a gazillion drones flown by 6th graders who will work for a free supply of Mountain Dew. That is the future. That is exactly what the future holds. Well maybe not the part about 6th graders, but much of today's youth is trained from the time they hold a controller for such a conflict. Take the pilot out of the plane and we can go from pulling 9 to 16 or 20 G's sustained. The Air force is now examining how to build flying drone carriers. Imagine this: In the future, when we have a real president, some third world stink hole pisses us off. Within hours, maybe one, maybe a handful, (depending on how pissed off we are) modified C-5's skirt their coast, releasing their payload, 24 stealth drones, each with a 1500 pound load out. Supporting Command and control aircraft could coordinate near simultaneous across said stink hole. After each gamer, errr I mean pilot empties his ordinance bay, he sends it back to the drone carrier via auto-pilot, or sets it to a reconnaissance mode to identify additional targets of opportunity. he then and picks up control of a second platform and continues his attach right where he left off. Stink holes chastised: 1 American lives at risk: 0
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That is exactly what the future holds. Well maybe not the part about 6th graders, but much of today's youth is trained from the time they hold a controller for such a conflict.
Take the pilot out of the plane and we can go from pulling 9 to 16 or 20 G's sustained. The Air force is now examining how to build flying drone carriers.
Imagine this: In the future, when we have a real president, some third world stink hole pisses us off. Within hours, maybe one, maybe a handful, (depending on how pissed off we are) modified C-5's skirt their coast, releasing their payload, 24 stealth drones, each with a 1500 pound load out. Supporting Command and control aircraft could coordinate near simultaneous across said stink hole. After each gamer, errr I mean pilot empties his ordinance bay, he sends it back to the drone carrier via auto-pilot, or sets it to a reconnaissance mode to identify additional targets of opportunity. he then and picks up control of a second platform and continues his attach right where he left off.
Stink holes chastised: 1 American lives at risk: 0
That's exactly where we are headed..... And it's wrong. It's not worth going to war unless it's worth losing your own son.
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All I know at age 62, is every time democrats cut our military, and their budget, we pay dearly for it............
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