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To: Shryke
The F-22 can't guarantee air supremacy while civilian aircraft are flying higher and faster than it can go and shoot.

Worse, the F-22 is so expensive that it is forcing us to retire vast numbers of experienced F-14, F-15, and F-16 pilots.

You are fighting the last century's wars in your head still.

Future fighters have to be better than current civilian technology. Flying slower and lower than civilian aircraft, and paying a billion dollars more per copy for that priviledge in the meantime, is not the path towards air domination.

If stealth alone is the answer, then we've already got the F-117 and B-2...but current civilian aircraft can already fly over and past them as if they were standing still. Ditto for the F-22, expensive as it is.

Frankly, what the F-22 offers is either redundant (e.g. stealth by the F-117 and B-2) or obsolete (e.g. its speed).

64 posted on 07/08/2004 4:08:10 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

You didn't answer my questions. Please do.


65 posted on 07/08/2004 4:27:29 PM PDT by Shryke (Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.)
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To: Southack

I saw little in the Little Rocket to get excited about. How long was it in the air a couple of minutes?


222 posted on 07/09/2004 2:10:05 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies: foreign and domestic RATmedia agree Bush must be destroyed.)
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