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Buncha whiney weinies. Waa Waa Waa!! Sour grapes. Notice that they don't mention the workhorse of the carrier war effort...the F-14 Tomcat. (The F-18s are disposable use aircraft: poorly made for long term duty. Limit of 2000 traps.) Tomcats are like energizer bunnies...they just keep going and going and going. The F-14 Tomcat can access multiple targets from any direction, have updated avionics, LANTIRN, TARPS and other enhancements. Not only are they FIGHTERS, they can function as hi-load BOMBERS (BOMBCAT) for laser guided weapons, and other smart bombs. They can carry at least 3 times more munitions, and fly twice or three times as far before refueling.

Tomcats RULE!!!

I think the AF flyboys are suffering from "tomcat" envy.

So what does the government do with a TOTAL WINNER like the Tomcat...pays several million dollars to destroy the tooling so they can never be built again! Thank Dick Chaney personally for that one. (Price for F-14 was $36 Mil each; Price for an F-18 $34 Mil each. It's like a VW bug vs a Cadillac Seville.)

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They're also being phsaed out of the fleet. For instance, VF-41, the "Black Aces," that just returned on the Big E have flown their Tomcats for the last time. They're switching to F-18's.

I talked to a Tomcat driver who said his airplane was fantastic, but his engines sucked. Talked about the flameout problem and attempts to correct it. And he admitted that when that wind rider was flying right, it was better than sex. But that didn't happen very often. Not nearly often enough.

destroy the tooling so they can never be built again!

WHAT ! I missed that announcement Dumb.

Boy I hate to sound tinfoil. But the more I hear of things like this. The more I think were being set up for a China takeover.