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Everyone Who Wanted More F-22s Is Being Proven Right
Fox Trot Alpha ^ | 25 September 2015 | Tyler Rogoway

Posted on 10/03/2015 12:27:17 PM PDT by zeestephen

As if they suddenly came to an epiphany, the United States Air Force brass is now admitting what many of us have been screaming about for so long: We didn’t build nearly enough F-22s, and the F-35 cannot simply pick up the slack.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: airforce; aviation; f35; raptor

1 posted on 10/03/2015 12:27:17 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

Now on to saving the A-10..... build new F-22’s and new A-10s triple the numbers if possible.


2 posted on 10/03/2015 12:30:31 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

Triple?

Demand octuple!

(Maybe we’d compromise on quintuple and actually get triple...)


3 posted on 10/03/2015 12:34:40 PM PDT by null and void (The voter pool needs chlorine, or maybe formaldihyde...)
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To: null and void

You little zero based budget’r yew .....:o)

Ask for 5 get three .....good point. I forgot we’re bargaining with socialist rats.

Hope yer well... stay safe !


4 posted on 10/03/2015 12:44:27 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: zeestephen

These type of stories just chafe my hyde. I guarantee that after they kill the a-10, we will hear about the desperate need for a-10’s due to some “unforseen” circumstances. Idiots.


5 posted on 10/03/2015 12:59:33 PM PDT by catbertz
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To: zeestephen
Do you mean to tell me that the one-size-fits-all approach of the F-35 won't work? It worked for healthcare.

Oh, wait . . .

6 posted on 10/03/2015 1:01:27 PM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: zeestephen
Could have bought a lot of these cheaper:

And with the money saved buy more F-22s and A-10s. The Scorpion can handle 90% of the jobs the Air Force does.

7 posted on 10/03/2015 1:24:16 PM PDT by BBell
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To: Squantos

Productive citizens: ask for 8, settle for 5, get 3.

Deadbeats: demand 2, settle for 3, get 5...


8 posted on 10/03/2015 1:32:03 PM PDT by null and void (The voter pool needs chlorine, or maybe formaldihyde...)
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To: null and void

That brings back memories from my military days. My EOD team supply NCOIC worked our budget the same way..... then came end of fiscal year , September was use it or lose it free for all pretty much in all forms of goobermint .... We weren’t too bad at it, Fall out money it was called.....usually enough left over to snag some fill in the janitorial and admin supply lockers. Money spent was for NF1 or NF2 categories of expendable or inventoried / accountable equipment....and that would be pretty close at the end of the year if your NCOIC in supply was good at what he did , Others were like we’re talking budget like we are here. Order three times as much as ya need, bankers cut ya by a third and your still ahead of the game ....:o)


9 posted on 10/03/2015 5:01:40 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

I’ve gotten slightly more cynical in my dotage...


11 posted on 10/03/2015 5:31:07 PM PDT by null and void (The voter pool needs chlorine, or maybe formaldihyde...)
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To: Squantos; BBell; Hoodat; catbertz; null and void; zeestephen
Now on to saving the A-10..... build new F-22’s and new A-10s triple the numbers if possible.

Wrong type of aircraft, completely. Deploy B-52s and saturation bomb every last moving thing on the ground. None of them are our friends.

12 posted on 10/03/2015 6:55:14 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

Perhaps, but the A-10 and F-22 can do wonders for provided the B-52 a safe sky in which to operate.


13 posted on 10/03/2015 7:02:38 PM PDT by null and void (The voter pool needs chlorine, or maybe formaldihyde...)
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To: null and void

I await the retirement of the A-10 so that they may be offered for sale to the public via the CMP. Hahahaha! I think they would look pretty nice with a 3%er insignia on the tail.


14 posted on 10/03/2015 9:41:57 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Rodamala

Bumping,

Some PMs to me have noted that F-117s are still flying. This is true and are probably serving as testbeds for avionics upgrades to both the F-22 and F-35.

I wish I could say that the F-22 production would be restarted once sanity prevails, but the way this country is heading, it is not possible.

Lockheed has probably learned enough from both the Raptor and Lightning airframes to build a better moustrap of an air superiority fighter, and would probably kick out an F-22C that would make the PAK-FA and J-20 prototypes as killable as a MIG-23. However, in the end, government is the end to all, and the stealer of defense funds for social experiments in both the military and on the citizens of the USA.


15 posted on 10/07/2015 12:01:54 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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