[AnotherUnixGeek]

The TARP bailout may hit $24 trillion, but the Senate says the F-22 is too expensive to build and maintain. So why are the Japanese so desperate to buy this "unnecessary" Cold War weapon?

Not just the Japanese, the Australians too. And the Indians are looking to drop 12 billion dollars on new fighters, I'd guess they'd be interested. Why is the US so determined not to sell these? They're older technology, aren't they?

[Sparticus]

Not just the Japanese, the Australians too. And the Indians are looking to drop 12 billion dollars on new fighters, I'd guess they'd be interested. Why is the US so determined not to sell these? They're older technology, aren't they?

To the contrary they are so much of an advancement over even our own current fighter inventory, that it's almost scary. I've read reports of training exercises where one or two F22's routinely face off against current US fighters (F15's, F16's or F18's) and achieve 100% kill rates against odds of 8 to 1 and more. You can't fight what you can't see.

The reason that we don't want to sell these to other countries is the danger of one of them falling into the wrong hands. If China or Russia got their hands on planes like these, we would be in big trouble if we were to ever go to war with them.

[EDINVA]

Russia wins with better fighters to sell and we lose. Why is this a surprise from the fraud occupying the oval office.