J of Gis exactly right. The current fleet size of F22 is the result of multiple cuts by Bush, Gates et al. OBama has noting to do with it.
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Um... You've obviously never been there....
20 year old technology, and 50 year old technology, respectively.
Gee that’s a well rounded political position.
I wouldn’t. As someone who used to make parts for this thing and knows the fixturing costs we’d have to re-incur to get production going again, it’d be a thousand times better spent in a new fighter program or modernizing existing assets. (B-52 reengine, PRETTY PLEASE IT’S ONLY BEEN 40 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE STARTED…
My desktop background is an F-35 doing AAR...
Wait another 10 years. Remember, There were plenty of noise about how crappy and wasteful the F-22 was back in the day. Something Tyler seems to have forgotten. Anything cutting-edge is going to be expensive, untested and imperfect until refined through trial & error (and time). The F-35 may be a pile of shit now, but…
I bet F-35s can’t do that!
Go Navy!!
Fantastic cartoon...thanks for the laugh!
They work for Mattress Firm on their off hours...delivering.
Intrigued that these crews, while airborne during any portion of their flight, are not wearing their helmets in case of an immediate need to egress (i.e. eject).
The best way to avoid World War 3 is to be very prepared for it.
Gawd that must have been horrible for you!
Somehow they managed to wrap commie jets, militaristic overtures, attacking a free press and an MH370-esque passenger jet sinking into the sea all in the same image.
I am going to give the other opinion, but I will not debate because everyone is an expert on the internet.
Well in a nutshell, there are 4 problems:
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They tested high enough on the ASVAB to score slippers.
(That’s the Russian AF’s Flanker demo team)