Blueskies wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:CKFNe.267211$_o.147173@attbi_s71...

Did anyone else catch the History Channel's "Modern Marvels: The F/A 22 Raptor" last night?

Looks like Lockheed's got another winner. (I just hope it isn't the last manned fighter aircraft...)

The F-22 is an interim, short run solution - the F-35 is the is the final manned solution...

We'll never get there. The real war will be electronic and the effects
will be destabliling governments, economies and organizations. Any
planes that fly will be pilotless -- USAF is currently testing unmanned
refuellers. I wish they had spent a few billion on artificial
intelligence to make the F/A-22 be able to perform really dangerous
missions without risking pilot lives.

There was an allusion to us all living together peacefully without war.
von Clausewicz wrote that war is the ultimate resolution of political
disputes. If you can figure a way to get rid of politics and
politicians, maybe we can avoid war, but I don't think that is possible.