Agreed. It's easy to sit here and count up all the public issues that the F-22 has had throughout its development process, but these are things that happen when you're pushing EVERY performance envelope. Imagine if the C-130 or B-52 had been developed today - the dozens of crashes would have been nightly news, and…

I don't believe that drones will always suffer from lag, but operations aren't limited to areas where controllers can be within 300 miles of the aircraft. For instance, an aircraft carrier might sit several hundred miles offshore, to remain out of the range of shore launched anti-ship missiles. Its aircraft might…

I've said it once, and I'll say it again - Classified data is not connected to the internet, and it cannot be accessed by 'Chinese spies'. To say so shows no understanding of systems security.

I don't see the piecemealing of components to multiple contractors as an issue as big as the ever changing requirements issues. I can't tell you how many projects I've worked, where designs were locked and agreed to with the Navy, then dozens of requirements were changed, and necessitated hundreds of changes to code,…

The YF-22 became the F-22. The YF-22 was in competition with the YK-23.

I love it when someone uses logic instead of hyperbole. Kudos!

I wouldn't take anything that's released from anyone other that his family, team, or publicist with anything more than a grain of salt. 'Reports' are typically someone's speculation.

Yes. I lived in NJ for 28 years, and went to both the Broadway and Giants Stadium celebrations the last time the Giants won the Super Bowl.

The point is that the majority of coverage of the Super Bowl, it's events, and even this post, set the tone that the game is being played in New York City, when it's not.

Except that the Super Bowl is not in Manhattan, New York City, or even New York State. It's in New Jersey.

Waddle your way through the local Wal-Mart or Golden Corral, and you're bound to find people that this is ready to happen to!

I'm in the town north of Charleston, and it's just raining. The temperatures are just above freezing, so no ice, yet.

The US also funded a significant portion of Iron Dome, and designed it, as well. Iron Dome, as a point defense system, is not equipped to protect an area or region. It is only useful against rockets and mortar fire. Iron Arrow, on the other hand, is an exo-atmospheric ABM system, and features radar with an 800-900…

Guam is not a good location to defend the west coast, as the interceptors only have a range of '>200 km'. You would need interceptors with much longer legs to achieve exo-atmospheric kill of a ballistic target from Guam. This is why AEGIS BMD is more attractive, as it can be re-positioned continually, and deployed…

In most instances, this is no problem, and has been done many times. In another instance, it...didn't work so well.

That looks like a big ass Burmese Python tried to eat an alligator, and asploded.

So, there are a couple issues with your post - the A-12, and the A-6 it was intended to replace - do completely different things than the B-2 and F/A-18, so they're not good analogs. The A-6 and A-12 were designed to be dedicated attack aircraft, just like the A-10 was designed to be the premier tank killer. The…

Huh. I've not encountered any of these people you speak of, on either side of the aisle. Most of the people here are perfectly normal. What causes this kind of vitriol?

Man, these people must not live around Charleston!

Exactly for the reason stated - to replace the aging A-6 Intruder, which was an all-weather attack aircraft. While the F/A-18 is a good platform, now, with the introduction of the Super Hornet variant, the original aircraft didn't do the attack mission very well.