"F-35 Test Flight Deemed a Success"

Ed is spot-on with this - the new SAM's are a factor that we have to deal
with and I see putting our energy into the F-22 first then the JSF (just my
point of view because of the present war). The stealth that we have now
still ain't enough - and it will take a whole lot of new stuff to deal. But
like everything else and as I said before, if you start targeting the SAM
operators and their mothers they get a quick change in attitude fast so we
could asymmetrically, as they say, add some diddles to the equation. It is
perhaps then a "full spectrum" fight (stealing from the Army)

Also look at it this way - the treasury we are dumping down the whole with
this war is preventing us from building the kit to deal with all this
super-stuff coming down the pike - and the dilemma is that we show ourselves
that the "new stuff" really can't be effectively used in this war - so it is
choices again







"eponymous cowherd" wrote in message
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In article , "TV"
wrote:

. Absolutely no dire
need for F-22 or -35, no matter who says it. Period. Ain't no one in a
place to challenge the US military on conventional grounds.

I disagree. The new Russian SAMs are very good and are being sold to
everyone.
This makes it very hard for non-stealthed aircraft to survive. We need to
fly
over Turd World countries to destroy their current or future ability to
nuke us.

I think the -22 and the -35 are two of the most pressing needs for america
in
today's world. The most pressing would be space based boost-phase missile
defense, but the voters won't go for it.