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Originally Posted by Ducimus
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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Well, we needed that new fighter.
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Not meaning to argue, but ive always wondered about the validity of it's "need". The state of conflicts these days are primarly low intensity conflicts. Insurgents, terrorts, or village goat pokers don't exactly have a radar network to defeat. Most technological advances wont do us much good in those scenerio's. I honestly don't see the need Unless we go to war with North Korea or china.
Now that said, i really do miss the SR-71 :rotfl: Seeing that plane hit the mothballs pained me, but the case for retiring that one was far more clear cut. |
Nope - everyone is not looking at who we will end up at war with, with a 100% gurantee that it will happen - China.
China currently fields SU-30K's that will decimate our F-15'a and F-16's. THis is why F-22 exists.
Next in line is SAM systems are advancing at a pace that will completely deny US air assets such as the F-15 and F-16 from any hope of enemy airspace penetration in the near future, so stealth is becoming a mandatory asset if you plan to have any hope of enemy airspace penetration.
China is also preparing its citizens for the near future conflict with America as you can see here:
Asian Times
AMERICA'S ACUPUNCTURE POINTS
PART 1: Striking the US where it hurts:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HJ19Ad01.html
PART 2: The assassin's mace:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HJ20Ad01.html
Here is a PDF on the subject on why we will go to war with China:
http://ftp.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/...e/97-0601I.pdf
How the US will fight China:
http://pekingduck.org/archives/How%2...ht%20China.pdf
More on why we will go to war with China:
http://www.d-n-i.net/lind/lind_5_18_05.htm
A Washington Post article on the subject:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/speci...2138-1088r.htm
Some recent examples of Chinese hostility has even included forced landing of a P-3 so that it can be stripped for its technology and an understanding of what its capabilities are. Laser based attacks and tests to understand how to blind US satilites. Need I go on? We need F-22 more than ever. We also need our space based satilites upgraded so we can see - right now we are running adequated sats too! Without, we will be Chinese duck soup and our casulty rate will be enormous!
-S
PS. Don't think for a second that SR-71 wasn't replaced.