[Oldexpat]

India plans to have about 230 SU=30’s in its Air Force..we are planning to hav less than 200 F-22’s. WTF?

[IrishCatholic]

Well, that is why it must be killed.

Being able to defend a nation is against the liberal mindset.
Weak=good.
America/strong=bad

They will kill the program and, God willing, we will bring it back the way Reagan brought the B-1 back after the Carter years.

Read the tag line. It always stays the same because it is fact.

[Jet Jaguar]

Air Force Association Responds to WP F-22 Article
F-16.net ^ | July 14, 2009 | Eric L. Palmer

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2292006/posts?page=1

[budwiesest]

Saw a 'news' report where, at $350 Mill each, they also require 35 hrs maintainence for every hour of flight. Something about the special 'skin' to avoid radar.

I seem to recall where this plane's thrusters could swivel to tighten a turn. Is that true? Also, recall reading about some F-18's that went up against one in a dogfight and all six were taken out by the F-22, flown by a former F-18 pilot. (who was pretty jazzed by it)

[jazusamo]

This is a good article with a message that deserved to be told.

[Jacob Morgan]

Remember how the M1 tank was a waste of money, how it couldn't shoot straight, etc., according to the freaking idiots in the media back in the early 1980’s. Oh boy, did they ever get that one wrong. The memo that they didn't work didn't make it over to Iraq in the first gulf war where the M1’s took out the advanced Soviet-supplied tanks like a shooting gallery game.

Back when I was in engineering school the class catalog stated that no credit, not even for the total credit hours (that could include PE, pottery, etc.) would be granted for journalism courses. Now I know why. Those journalists are the stupidest things on two legs. They hoot and holler when a system tested to failure, fails. Well, that is apt to happen when things are tested to failure. How they hell do these people find their way to work in the morning, what with all those road signs and such?

And let me get this straight, "stimulus" money for condom education programs, rat research, etc., but not for the defense industy that actually empolyees people that actually make a durable good that could deter enemy attack? If the government wants to make work then make arms.