[spetznaz]

The Air Force certainly hasn't learned them. They'll go from a high of 800 F-15s to 274 F-22s.

Last I heard it was 183 Raptors.

[DesScorp]

" Last I heard it was 183 Raptors."

See, that's even worse.

Back in the mid 80's, I read a lot of the military aviation magazines. One prominent writer (maybe Bill Sweetman) wrote:

We could build a fighter with the electronics of the Starship Enterprise, but what good will it do us if we can only afford two of them?

We've finally gotten to the point where we've priced ourselves out of warplanes in effective numbers.