Kevin Brooks wrote:

"Henry J. Cobb" wrote in message
m...
http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/wood021204.html
The Air Force has spent $32 billion on its new F-22 supersonic stealth
fighter. Twenty aircraft have come off the production line and
hundreds more are planned.
...
But rigorous, independent field testing -- to find out if the F-22
actually works -- hasn't yet begun.

So why not pause production for a few years until the testing is
complete?

Henry, your ceaseless efforts to out-think the DoD (and I recently noted
where you are now looking to take on the Canadian defense
establishment--hopefully then you are about done with our own forces?) are
becoming increasingly ridiculous. Are you really so utterly clueless as to
think that you can just put that F-22 production on "hold" for "a few
years", after the production line is already up and running? And what other
weapons system has EVER undergone "rigorous, independent field testing" for
"a few years" while the assembly line sits idle?

Brooks

Note: For those not knowledgable of Henry's history, he has driven quite a
few of the more sensible regulars over in SMN up the wall with his
continuous, emphatic, and frequently baseless critiques of the USN's LCS,
DDX, etc., programs, seemingly convinced that he alone (none of those
pedantic professional naval officers having a clue, of course) has a clear
view of what the Navy *really* needs. God forbid he now is apparently going
to stretch his grasp towards the USAF, for which he undoubtedly will have a
plethora of criticisms in store...

The simplest answer is to just ignore/killfile him for the terminally clueless
sort he is, because it's clear that he'll continue this ad nauseum as long as
anyone's willing to reply to his nonsense. Since he's more of a minor
irritation than a plague, for the moment I'm just ignoring him.

Guy