JPilot9
Well-Known Member
Has anyone seen this yet?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/fir...ates-calling-cuts-high-tech-weapons-programs/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/fir...ates-calling-cuts-high-tech-weapons-programs/
This is going to go flamebait...but I mean common...I think almost 200 F-22's is enough.
This is going to go flamebait...but I mean common...I think almost 200 F-22's is enough.
enough for what? Not a flame but asking how you arrived at the number.
enough for what? Not a flame but asking how you arrived at the number.
Enough to obtain Air Superiority over any threat we will face in the coming years. Just my (uneducated) guess.
There was for a while a ppt on the net showing the 187 Raptors going against the Chinese who are producing their copy of the Flanker along with a few other very capable fighters. The j-10 is reportedly no 'grape' and the Chinese are reported to being producing them in numbers. One site said the J-10 has 10-16 hard points. That is a lot of weapons coming out of China and we have few bases to place the Raptors in that area.
No doubt, Gates knows more than we do and he has been no fan of the -22. But the -35 is less stealthy, slower, has a lower op ceiling, shorter range and less punch. And it is not operational.
http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.140/pub_detail.asp
Just saw that on Yahoo.
CSAR-X going too. At least KC-X isn't gone......pending the AF can ever get it right.
reasonably conceived conflict?
What is that???
Do you really see a war with the US and China anytime in the next 25 years? No...our economy is to far intertwined.
Clearly you've forgotten that Gates is a holdover from the Bush administration.Change you can beleive in, eh comrads.
As opposed to the previous administration's logic of "paying" for increased military spending with tax cuts?The F-22 is expensive. I just hope the idea isn't to pay for the crazy spending Obama is doing with military cuts.
This is going to go flamebait...but I mean common...I think almost 200 F-22's is enough.
Right in the article it says production will stop at 187 F-22's. I think that the extra 150 million dollars per pop could go to much better use then this imaginary war with China, Korea, and Iran in the near future.
There might be something philosophically wrong with a 150 million dollar fighter (or a billion dollar bomber). Just one engineer's opinion.
F-16: 15 million
F-15: 25 million
F-22: 150 million
I leave it to the tacticians to discuss: is 1 F-22 worth 5 F-15s in a reasonably conceived conflict?