"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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Kevin Brooks wrote:
"Henry J Cobb" wrote in message
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I like the F-35, but I can't see the point of spending 11.7 billion
dollars to add the "A" to F/A-22.

But we are not spending $11.7 billion to add the "A".

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04391.pdf

Read the report.

LOL! I did. And you know what? As usual, you are trying to make sources say
something to suit your needs instead of actually digesting what they have to
say. That $11 billion is for *all* F/A-22 spiral development, including
enhancing the air-to-air capabilities, enhancing it as an ISR platform, etc
(and care to guess how much we have spent on continued RDT&E on other
systems like the F-16, F-15, etc., over their lifetimes?). Not to "add the
"A"". Geeze Henry, why don't you READ the crap you are using before you cram
that other foot in your mouth? And it is interesting how quickly you dropped
that whole "Okinawa requires a permission slip and is too far away" BS...you
figure if you snip it away it just disappears, huh?

Unfortunately this is about par for your pronouncements--short on reasoning,
short on conclusions, and bolstered by inappropriate supporting evidence. No
wonder the folks in SMN regularly unload a broadside at you when you uncloak
and make similar utterances.

Brooks


-HJC