[Republic]

Good points. But you do not leave a GAP between goals when dealing with defense. If retrofitting existing craft makes sense, good. Do it. But it the existing crafts are not longer air worthy because a structual problems...other systems need to being built NOW to replace them. Just as weaponry must continually evolve because the ability to destroy it in the air continually evolves, so does the delivery system.

We have an amazing new F22 (have 180 but uhbama will not allow anymore to be built) and have the prototype of the F35 (a few are flying but it is a plane for ALL services - with variations [ie the ones that would land on aircraft carriers] that ubama had said NO to building the real deal.)

uhbama is a total immature jerk who could care less about our ability to help others and especially our ability to protect ourselves....my, goodness...if we were attacked somewhere in this nation, ol uhbama and Rahm would USE the horror or crisis to inflict MORE RESTRAINTS on our freedom.

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re: F22
Since the F22 is in production all is not lost since we have the design and some amount of manufacturing and support infrastructure. I’ll have to read more about the F22. I am ignorant of what the F22 can do that other planes can’t, and how those advantages benefit us in actual warfare as it’s waged today.