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To: Cyber Liberty
"Discarded after spending billions, with the features rolled into the F-35."

That's not correct, the F-22 is the "F-15" to the F-35's "F-16" role.

Here's a discussion from Feb. 4 this year regarding the current state of the AF from U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command Gen. Michael Hostage (ironic name really). The money quote:

But, the F-22 Raptor will have to support the F-35. And here comes another problem. When the Raptor was produced it was flying “with computers that were already so out of date you would not find them in a kid’s game console in somebody’s home gaming system.” Still, the U.S. Air Force was forced to use the stealth fighter plane as it was, because that was the way the spec was written. But now, the F-22 must be upgraded through a costly service life extension plan and modernisation program because, “If I do not keep that F-22 fleet viable, the F-35 fleet frankly will be irrelevant. The F-35 is not built as an air superiority platform. It needs the F-22,” says Hostage to Air Force Times.
Those 180+ F-22s will be awfully busy protecting the 1600+ planned F-35s...
38 posted on 04/02/2014 10:13:25 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: PreciousLiberty

“Gen. Michael Hostage (ironic name really)”

Could be worse....

We had a Major Dick when I was stationed in Germany, and no he didn’t live up to his name.


69 posted on 04/02/2014 11:24:58 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Politicians and diapers need to be changed for the same reason)
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To: PreciousLiberty

I knew somebody would come along and correct me...


71 posted on 04/02/2014 11:48:07 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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