[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Jet Jaguar]

“F-15, F-16 and F-18 aircraft with Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar, high-capacity datalink, enhanced avionics and the ability to deploy advanced weapons.”

We have these in service now. We need the newer tech in new airframes.

[pfflier]

How wonderful, they've killed the F-22 and now they want to abort the F-35 which was their solution for killing the F-22. The logic is that no threat exists that the F-15. F-16 and F-22 can't handle.

That's what cost us dearly in WWII and Korea. The rest of the world proceeded with their R&D and we rested on our laurels. This peace dividend will cost lives. It will also cost us our aerospace industry.

When we really need a 5th generation fighter, we can always buy one from the Russians.

[Snickering Hound]

There's lots of F-16's and F-15's parked at Davis-Monthan, no reason to build new ones if you're not buying F-35's and F-22's.

[Big_Monkey]

This is a confusing article. It doesn't really get into the other branches of service, and what the F-35 means to them. The Navy and the Marine Cops is planning to replace their entire F/A fleet with the F-35.

Without the purchase of the F-35 for the ANG, the unit price of the Navy/Marine Corps variants will skyrocket.

Are they planning on scraping the entire F-35 weapons system?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Knowing that dumbass Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), she’ll demand all of the manuals and markings inside the cockpit be written in Spanish. What a dumb ****.

[Jet Jaguar]

F-16 ping.

[zipper]

I'm sure they'll think of something.

Saturday morning, 174th Fighter Wing pilots will take off on their final scheduled deployment in the cockpits of the fighter jets they've flown since the 1980s.....In the fall of 2010, the F-16s replacement -- new, unmanned drones called MQ-9 Reapers -- will arrive at Hancock Field.....the unmanned drones are "the future of aviation in terms of high performance fighters," [174th Fighter Wing Commander] Bradley said.

Syracuse's 174th Fighter Wing's F-16s taking off on final scheduled deployment

 

[gaijin]

The fighter aircraft to come will have no people in them. They will be highly persistent, will have autonomous air-2-air refueling, etc. They will turn on dimes, put no pilots at risk, be capable of attacking targets behind them, and much more.

AF generals despise such aircraft. But they’re coming.