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To: 2Wheels

The F-22 is a boondogle.

Besides, you can’t fight terrorists with the F-22 - It was designed to shoot down the best and brightest Soviet fighters around. Well, they ain’t around and soon neither will be the F-22.

Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.


48 posted on 04/06/2009 11:21:11 AM PDT by Professor_Leonide (I said to the young man who showed me a photo, "Who can ever be sure what is behind a mask?")
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To: Professor_Leonide
Besides, you can’t fight terrorists with the F-22 - It was designed to shoot down the best and brightest Soviet fighters around.

...such as the MiG-31s that Putin is selling to Chavez, Assad, etc...

326 posted on 04/06/2009 2:19:57 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: Professor_Leonide; 230FMJ; 50mm; A.Hun; abigailsmybaby; AFPhys; Aircop_2006; AliVeritas; Allegra; ..
You don't know when and where the next war will be...But fear not! The kitties will be glad to give you a few pointers...

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.

353 posted on 04/06/2009 3:45:37 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: Professor_Leonide; darkwing104; Old Sarge

IATZ


354 posted on 04/06/2009 3:47:57 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Professor_Leonide; darkwing104
I KNEW IT!



Good-bye and GOOD RIDDANCE "PROFESSOR"!!!
Thank you, Mods!
362 posted on 04/06/2009 3:58:14 PM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Professor_Leonide

>>Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.<<

Army air corps? or troll? Time will tell.


364 posted on 04/06/2009 4:01:11 PM PDT by gondramB
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To: Professor_Leonide

It would be sheer idiocy.

We’re going to wish we had those F-22s when the Chinese make their military move.


367 posted on 04/06/2009 4:06:41 PM PDT by behzinlea
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401 posted on 04/06/2009 5:49:21 PM PDT by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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To: Professor_Leonide; darkwing104

We live in fame.

You went down in flames.

Nothing can stop the U.S. Air Force!


406 posted on 04/06/2009 6:06:35 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: Professor_Leonide
Well, they ain’t around and soon neither will be the F-22.

A lot of things just go poof and are not around any more eh?
408 posted on 04/06/2009 6:21:35 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Professor_Leonide
You obviously underestimated the usefulness of the VK squadron of F-22s


409 posted on 04/06/2009 6:21:35 PM PDT by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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To: Professor_Leonide

Dude give it up. You can’t be that dumb. The F-22 has far greater use than a fighter to fighter platform. It is the best jet fighter in the world but, just as the F-117 was used to knock out command & control facilities, infrastructure, AAA assets, and other high value targets in GW1 the F-22 will fill the same role.


426 posted on 04/06/2009 7:55:46 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Professor_Leonide; Admin Moderator
Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.

That is one monumentally huge plate of stupid you dished up there, bigger than I've seen in weeks. You probably need something to wash it down.

The mods won't let me tell you what's in the cup (trust me I tried). Just drink up.

428 posted on 04/06/2009 9:01:23 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (Obama - a vital organ of the headless Soviet beast that thrives in our land.)
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To: Professor_Leonide
The F-22 is a boondogle.

False.

It was and remains an effective state of the art stealth fighter....which can guarantee us air superiority for the next two or three decades...which has been strung out and underfunded so that every single plane is forced to be charged about twice what it would have been if it had simply been ordered for 5 or 6 hundred planes instead of the unending "research" and Clinton-dictated "redesign" into also being an attack plane (ground bombing) and then Bush's onesy-twosy orders...along with his father and Cheney having killed the Navy version.

Economies of scale are absolutely vital in considering the deployment of weapons systems. And from the get-go, the enemies of our future aviation superiority have stymied us from deploying sufficient forces. ...And not just the F-22.

Besides, you can’t fight terrorists with the F-22 - It was designed to shoot down the best and brightest Soviet fighters around. Well, they ain’t around and soon neither will be the F-22.

Wrong again.

You can't fight terrorists unless you have air superiority.

AND The Soviet union's last fighters are still being produced by Putin/Medvedev...and you can bet that these will make into theaters that will undermine our air superiority. Same as with the French and Swedish fighters

Mig-29

Su-35

Maybe the Air Force should be next on the chopping block. It would be poetic justice.

Justice? According to Red China maybe, which wants to be hegemon of the world....

Chinese Su-27

468 posted on 04/07/2009 11:02:11 AM PDT by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Professor_Leonide

I look forward to the whole sorry mess of warped thinkers like you are swept from the national scene.


494 posted on 04/07/2009 5:52:15 PM PDT by omega4179 (boycott government run entities)
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