New immigrant to Israel: F22 stealth fighter?

Yedioth Ahronoth,Israel ^ | 08.03.06, 18:40 | Aryeh Egozi

[sukhoi-30mki]

[madconserv]

Support Israel.

[madconserv]

[tomnbeverly]

Perfect timing for the Tehran strikes.

[lmr]

Is that a Warthog following the Raptor?

[madconserv]

I believe so. The photo comes from the DOD web site.

[madconserv]

The main war better start before 2009 or we will all be dead or on our knees facing Mecca.

[sgtbono2002]

I see no need to give Israel a stealth fighter. I have read nothing about planes being downed by Hezballah, there is no need for stealth, unless Israel is planning to go to Iran. Which by the way has to be viewed a a major escalation of the war. Iran certainly needs to be visited and visited hard, but it needs to be done by a coalition of many countries. Unfortunately If Israel tries to go it alone it will be condemned by the very countries that should be in that coalition.

[GeronL]

remember to write Hez-Ebola and tell them what you think about them.

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[Jezebelle]

At some point people will have to accept that Israel has a right to defend herself and that those who try to dissuade her from that are not much better than those who attack her.

[GeronL]

Iran did say they were going to send some anti-aircraft missiles to the Hez-Ebola, probably why France thinks Iran is a stabalizing force.

[burzum]

Israel doesn't need the F-22. If we give the F-22 to a couple of friendly countries, the Chinese will have the technology in 5 years.

[GeronL]

Maybe 6.

[trisham]

Wow. That is a very cool plane.

[madconserv]

In 5 to 6 years we will have F-22-B. Kinda like NCC-1700-B.

[Crazieman]

3 years away if we get a Clinton wannabe. And we wouldn't have made any money in the deal either.

[SauronOfMordor]

Israel doesn't need the F-22. If we give the F-22 to a couple of friendly countries, the Chinese will have the technology in 5 years.

Look at it from the Pentagon's point of view. In 5 years the f-22's costs will have been paid for, the project managers will have moved on to jobs at the defense contractors they supervised. It will thus be time to declare the F-22 obsolete and start the procurement cycle over again

[txroadhawg]

They don't need the F-22, they need the B-52

[sgtbono2002]

I am surprised France isnt send the anti-aircraft missiles.

[Kakaze]

" 3 years away if we get a Clinton wannabe. And we wouldn't have made any money in the deal either "

I was against to begin with. I want our technology in OUR hands. The problem is there are so many damn traitors and outright spies in our midst, that the technology will get out. Like you said we could see another Loral deal here and the chinesse would get it gift wrapped.

Plus and heres the major reason for my change of heart. We can't trust congress or even some in the pentagon to buy enough of these aircraft to make it worth Lockheads trouble to manufacture them.

"The F22 Raptor is manufactured by Lockheed Martin. Originally, the US Air Force planned to buy 750 of the jets, but the number dropped first to 350, then to a mere 183. The price of each F22 is roughly USD 150 million."

Who's to say the number won't drop even further? Let Lockheed export them to Israel, Austrailia, Canada and Great Britian. Lets allow Lockhead to keep the manufacturing lines open, the highly trained employees working and give them reason to keep doing R&D..let them make a profit.

Some might call this "corporate welfare" but I'd call it a strategic manuever to maintain a manufacturing and technology base for national defense.