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When Defense Secretary Robert Gates rankled the Air Force's fighter fraternity by terminating the top-line F-22 Raptor, he tried to sooth the hurt by promoting the slower, less-capable F-35 as a good fill-in.
The risk in Gates' decision is hammered home by this stark fact: the Air Force estimates it could be short 800 fighter-bombers by 2024...
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FLASHBACKs :
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The F-22 can outrun, outclimb, and outmaneuver any fighter, but the F-35 is the first ever designed to replace four existing aircraft...
READ MORETrillions for pork but nothing for the Raptors?
“Every plan, every contingency, assumes we'll control the skies”
Congress needs to step in and step up production of the F-22 and of the components of missile defense. We already have too many reminders of the ‘30s. A unilateral disarmament in air power is an unnecessary and dangerous addition to them.
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