[redgolum]

F35’s, F22’s, etc. Who cares? Why aren’t we developing the equivalent of an AK-47 as an airplane? A plane that is simple, elegant, easily maintained, easily used, easily updated, always works, never out of style. The reason we will have so few F35’s and F22’s and all the rest is because we are constantly burdened wasting money trying for the next techno-gadget airplane hangar queen, instead of producing actual functional weapons that are always available for work.

That is easy. We won't sacrifice a few thousand pilots like the Soviets did.

[GBA]

We won't sacrifice a few thousand pilots like the Soviets did.

No, we don't have that many pilots. But, our leadership will send the pilots we do have out to fight new Sukhois in 20 year old fighters instead of building the F-22s the military believes are necessary.