I think they’d be licking their chops at the idea of being able to face Hamas in a straight up fight. A nice opportunity to whittle down their numbers quite quickly.

I’m sure the Israelis would love to see Hamas try to fight straight up in a tank battle. Between armed drones, aircraft and of course the Israeli’s own tanks, a battle might last 5 minutes.

“most pickup truck owners don’t care what they need. They care only what they want.”

The Israelis aren’t the only ones who use such tactics. We’ve done the same thing with the B-1. One of the loudest planes I’ve ever hear and that was subsonic at an airshow. I’m betting one at supersonic speed would be VERY intimidating.

Well, the VERY successful 787 did actually catch on fire and was actually grounded for a little over 3 months while they came up with and tested an acceptable solution. Sales don’t seem to have been affected at all. Initial deliveries of the new A320Neo are being impacted by a prolonged start-up procedure on their P &…

Look at ANY of today’s fighters and their prolonged development programs. Eurofighter Typhoon, Rafale, Grippen, etc. Developing the software for ANY aircraft these days is hideously difficult. The Chinese, Russians and Japanese have all had problems just developing smaller single aisle commercial aircraft. Those…

Lol. Tell that to the Indians. Or, just look at FAR less complex civilian programs. Look how long it’s taking the Chinese, Russians and Japanese to to big small single aisle commercial aircraft.

That’s the problem, our current aircraft are already pretty old. I heard they’re looking to extend the service life from 9,000 to 18,000 hours. While that’s theoretically possible, it’s expensive to do and carries risks. A fair portion of the fleet was grounded a few years ago after one broke up mid-air. It turns out…

I think there are a lot of countries who don’t think it’s all that hard to get into the fighter business. Not only is Japan developing this aircraft with a mind toward producing their own 5th Gen fighter, but South Korea and Turkey both are wanting to develop their own fighters as well. I would have thought that the…

I know I’m in the minority, I’ve always love the styling of the XJ-S. I’d love to do a LS conversion and solve most of the reliability problems that way as well as making it a hoot to drive. There’s a company that makes a wiring harness that allows an LS to plug into the existing wiring and have all the guages work,…

Either.

Against any opponent. It’s ALREADY US Air Force doctrine to supplement low numbers of F-22s with upgraded F-15 “Golden Eagles”. The F-35 simply doesn’t have the range, manueverability or weapons load to properly support the tip of the spear F-22s. Boeing has recently proposed upgrading F-15s to carry 16 AAMs like the…

I’m afraid you’re misinformed. All of the technology I mentioned is ALREADY developed and in most cases is already in service. The US Air Force hasn’t bought any F-15s in 20 years or so but it’s still been developed and sold to customers around the world since then. And those F-15s are far more capable than our own.

My suggestion is reducing F-35 purchases slightly to buy F-15s. No increase in overall spending.

The F-35 was designed to replace the F-16, not the F-15. We came up with a world beating replacement for the F-15, the F-22. The problem is we only purchased a VERY small amount of them. So how do you make up for that? The F-35 definitely has the stealth advantage. But, it’s limited both in its range(especially…

The deal is the F-35 can’t perform the high end fighter mission. So even if it is a little cheaper than the top of the line F-15(and I’m not so sure it really is), it won’t help the F-22s get there job done.

The F-117 is old stealth technology. Faceted design was acceptable as a 1st Gen solution but every design since has gone with continuous curvature. As big a revelation as the F-117 was in the 1980s and 1990s, it’s no longer anywhere near as stealthy as the F-35. Simply upgrading the coatings won’t change that. I’m not…

I’d love to see the US buy 200+ new build F-15s to supplement our tiny F-22 force.

Congress forbade export of the F-22. So when our purchases ended so did the production of the aircraft. A total clusterfuck.

Limiting ourselves to 187 F-22s is just part of the problem. The other part is we weren’t willing to sell them to even our closest allies like Japan, South Korea, Australia and Israel. Such sales wouldn’t have just lowered our costs of purchasing additional F-22s, it would have transformed the strategic picture in the…