Posted on 03/16/2022 8:48:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
“I’m not impressed with them as a company.”
They used to be a great company, and produced some excellent platforms.
“The F-15 is like the B52, a platform just about at the apex of development, good for decades. It is a big monster of a fighter but it can do about anything.”
I think the F-22 is the best fighter plane the world has ever seen. Th F-15 is second.
So I read every reply, and not one mentions that the reason for the reduced buy is the Block 4 upgrade is late, and the DoD doesn’t want the expense of upgrading that many planes later.
This doesn’t affect the eventual total count.
The F-35, by the way, is second to none in many aspects.
And the McCain, Romney, Cheney, Snow... et all idiots.
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