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That's the F-22. I was talking about the F-35 being axed.

I'll admit I could be wrong, it HAS happened. But FReeper Pukin Dog, who is a former F-14 Commander and TOPGUN instructor who got out last year has some good inside iggies that tell him it's dead. He's pretty sure of the matter, and I've never found him to be wrong.

As for my own bona fides, I've got a Bachelor's in Aeronautical Science, a Commercial-Instrument-Multi-Engine license, and have spent the last 11 years as a Naval Aircrewman, with 2500 hours in P-3 ORIONS. That's a total of about 20 years in aviation, at some of the best schools for it in the nation.

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Never questioned what you were talking about or your bona fides....... I was only questioning Haro about his.

[forYourChildrenVote4Bush]

" The Navy will keep the F-18 "

The first military equipment sent to a war zone are the aircraft carriers, with the aging f18 (this is a vairant on the f15???) how could they protect an aircraft carrier against russian made su44 su27,30 and so on.

Are these Russian planes not better than the f15-f18???

The US only plans on competing against them with only one plane f22?? Hard to believe.