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Originally posted by sweatmonicaIdo
reply to post by getreadyalready
And what about our Soldiers and Marines? How will they get all the little things they need if all our money goes to maintaining these "jobs?"
And if you're so worried, look at it this way. We increasing funding for the Army and Marine Corps, then the jobs go someplace else. Its not as if the jobs disappeared.
Originally posted by Zosynspiracy
What's the difference betwee 187 and another 7? LMAO! Government is a joke nowadays. I'd much rather have my tax money go to build more F-22s than bail out some bankers.
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Ohh let's all loose are minds because the government isn't making our favorite weapons anymore.
Come on now folks, who cares, I think it's great that they aren't wasting money on continuing useless projects. We all know they have far better than the F22, that's just their public model.
I mean ok yes, the jobs, that's bad and perhaps another project should be given to the people who build them, but as far as I am concerned, less guns is good.
~Keeper
Originally posted by on_yur_6
Back on topic. Where Russia, China, and India can hurt us is engagements near their territory. Our carriers are amazing but one carrier wouldn't last long off the shores of Russia, China, or India.
The US Senate today voted to end production of Lockheed Martin F-22s after 2011, overturning a challenge to the Obama Administration's defence budget priorities with a surprising 18-vote majority.
The Senate voted 58-40 to strip $1.75 billion for buying seven more F-22s beyond the 187 funded in the current programme of record. The money had been added in June by the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee
so no powered guided AGM , no SEAD ability (actually the F35 cannot go `SEAD` either as the HARM cannot be carried internally either and isn`t in the IOC weapons fit)
Many of you keep mentioning that the USA has something better than the F-22. Well what is it?? Does anyone have proof or have you all just read too many Tom Clancy novels? If and I mean if there is something out there not many of them have been built. It takes a large scale operation to build squadrons of planes/Triangles/UFO or whatever you think is out there. I haven't seen any hard evidence suggesting the USA has something far superior to the F-22 but I would love to see it!
What are the plans for filling in the gap between now and then?
Originally posted by C0bzz
F-117 was retired with no replacement. I think the F-35 will be the replacement in the long term, with the role partially covered short term with stand-off munitions like JASSM and JSOW. F-14 was "replaced" by the F/A-18E/F, though it is rather a slow strike aircraft rather than a fleet defense interceptor like the F-14 was. The F-35 will replace the F-16, F/A-18A/B/C/D, and Harrier - maybe A-10 in a few decades.
What are the plans for filling in the gap between now and then?
Upgrading the newest F-15's.
[edit on 22/7/2009 by C0bzz]