There's nothing about the F-22 that makes me laugh. This is one deadly serious piece of air to air kit.
It also represents:
- a techonology we should probably develop and not buy, wait for the next generation. No need for the Aircraft now, and the next gen will be even better.
-a major distraction for the airforce; helping them keep their eyes off the ball we really need them to hit now and for the foreseeable future.
- an expense we can't afford.
- a Moby Dick of an objective for an Ahab--like AF senior leadership. Mortgaging the entire service on the gamble that what they want is more important that what the nation needs. They may be right, but I have my doubts.
A Sergeant Major and good friend got a tour of a hanger of F-22's by the NCO responsible for maintaining them. I won't elaborate, but if half of what that seriously concerned NCO shared with another is true, showing him phyisical examples of each concern he raised, people should be brought up on charges.
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