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| 2009-02-18 | |
by Mark Bowden
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #14 F-22, waste of money. Until someone can challenge an F-15 we are just developing capability for our opponents to steal. |
| Posted by: rammer 2009-02-18 23:51 |
| #13 Trough the good services of our friends at DC. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-02-18 20:12 |
| #12 A fine article in The Atlantic and a pun by OS. Truely, 'tis a day of wonder! OK, Ok, anything by Mark Bowden is good. But the pun was unexpected. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-02-18 14:31 |
| #11 Grom: You have socialism and fascism mixed up. We are headed toward a modern mix of national socialism and East German liberty. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-02-18 13:16 |
| #10 Just like knowing you tells us all about how Israel went from the Yom Kippur War to tolerating Hamas and Hezbollah running mini-states on its borders. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-18 13:15 |
| #9 Actually I like you OldSpook---you're soo well informed & intelligent. Knowing you helps me to understand how USA went from being Word's bastion of free enterprise to socialism in two generations. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-02-18 13:03 |
| #8 And if you want a Lavi, go buy a Chinese J-10 Chengdu - the bastard Israelis sold the tech and design from the Lavi to the Chinese who built the J-10 off of it (Jerusalem Center for Public affairs revealed that). The Lavi was scarcely better than a C Block 50 F-16 and inferior to the F/A-18F Super Hornet. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-02-18 12:01 |
| #7 And FYI, the4 Lavi was cancelled 20+ years ago. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-02-18 11:56 |
| #6 Grom, you are wrong. You show that you are a simpleton and an arrogant bigot, as is usually visible from you bilge filled posts. Piss off like the good little simpleton you are, Adults are talking here. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-02-18 11:54 |
| #5 Our dependence on UAV and air cover demands that the F-22 be bought in sufficient numbers as to guaranteed superiority from the git-go. Without it, our Army and Marine forces have become simply too few and too light to fight under circumstances other than air superiority. As much as I rag on the zoomies here, the F-22 is required, if for nothgin else, as a deterrent. THe F-35 can replace the harrier, F/A-18 and F-16 as it was designed to do. It is not a replacement for the Starship. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-02-18 11:53 |
| #4 Shows what you know OS. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-02-18 11:29 |
| #3 Well that's the question isn't it, OS. One could argue that the F-35 is capable enough that we should buy more of them instead of the F-22. I'm not an aviator and have no idea in the end what the right policy is. The article makes a great point: our military takes air supremacy as the starting point for a lot of what it wants to do. If we don't have that the ground-pounders are potentially in big trouble. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2009-02-18 10:53 |
| #2 We need the F-22 in larger numbers if for no other reason than to replace the ancient F-15 airframes as they wear out. Lavi? Junk. C'est Lavi. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-02-18 08:16 |
| #1 Lavi, lavi, lavi. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-02-18 07:12 |