[hattend]

Excellent Article

[hattend]

Long, but excellent

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Blood of Tyrants]

The F-22 was designed as an air superiority fighter but there is no way it can win when it is outnumbered 10 to 1.

[sten]

the number of F-22s in the world is radically increasing....

in china

you can thank 0bama... china has (see $34m Hawaii place)

[Hardraade]

An important point, of course, was to keep it out of export. Might end up having Israel getting its hands on it.

[Zhang Fei]

The guy is right that an all stealth fighter fleet is not practical in the short term, i.e. the next decade. But in the long run (i.e. beyond 10 years), we don't have a choice. Just as prop fighters were outclassed by jets during the Korean War, non-stealth fighters will be massacred by near-stealth or stealth fighters fielded by our adversaries. We've been lucky in not having to fight a near-peer adversary in the last 70 years. We can't count on never having to do so. Note that in Vietnam alone, we lost over 900 fighter aircraft in combat against a major but non-peer adversary. We can't assume that all future non-peer adversaries will be as unmotivated and incompetent as the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Israelis are right - it's easy to look good when you're fighting Arabs and/or Muslims.

[Army Air Corps]

Raptor Ping.

[Dilbert56]

Wow, painful to read.