Skip to comments.
F-35 restructuring saves $6.9 bln over 5 years
Reuters ^
| 1/25/2011
| Reuters
Posted on 01/26/2011 8:47:09 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-25 last
To: jpsb
They look at lot more formidable than the J-20.
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
That will go a long way toward covering obama’s trillion and a half $/year budgeted deficits.
22
posted on
01/27/2011 12:47:51 AM PST
by
tdscpa
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
..... 168 F-22 planes as of October 2010. The projected plan is 187 planes....Thanks for the reassuring info. I am not so reassured about the B-2 numbers.
I am old enough to always recall that thousands of crude T-34 tanks overwhelmed hundreds of super-high quality, high-performance, high firepower NAZI tanks. So I always fear an aerial version of same when going up against the CHICOM, or Russkis.
As far as close support aircraft are concerned, do we want 1 F-35 an hour away, or 25 A-10s on instant call ... or 50 helicopters?
23
posted on
01/27/2011 6:13:26 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
(America might survive Obama. It cannot survive those who vote for him)
To: freedumb2003
Nothing. The F22 could do the F35 mission and then shoot the F35 down. All while the F22 pilot is still in the shower.
I know there's a lot of talk about how the laws of physics don't apply to the F-22 (usually by the Aggressor pilots at Nellis), but I believe it's incapable of operating from CVNs and LHA/LHDs ... which the F-35C and F-35B (respectively) can do.
I also believe that the F-22 is incapable of carrying 2000lb class weapons internally. Nor does it have any sort of integrated IR/Laser sensor/targeting suite.
To: Kenny Bunk
If you have at least three B-52s”cells” and filled to the brim with nuclear ALCM missiles you can wreak a lot of damage. That many B-2s can turn the entire nations of Russia and Iran into dust. The nuclear AGMs the B-2 carries over 300 kilotons per cruise missile
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-25 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson