F-22 - a plane you won't go to war with?

[goldorak]

One of biggest problems of the F-22 is that is was not developed with "exports" in mind. In the past F-4's, A-4's,F-15's, F-16's, F-18's, even F-14's were sold abroad (and I'm forgetting a lot of other aircraft). It made good financial sense. If the F-22 were built more modular, then a less "stealthy" version could still be sold on the international market to friendly governments. Case in point, Japan prefers the F-22 over the other EF-2000 but they can't buy it.

[Loud_Silence]

IMHO, for several reasons, Russia is not a trustworthy country. Specially after they let eastern europe countries' people freeze and die for not paying the russian gas taxes.

[goldorak]

Originally Posted by Loud_Silence

IMHO, for several reasons, Russia is not a trustworthy country. Specially after they let eastern europe countries' people freeze and die for not paying the russian gas taxes.

Who said anything about selling F-22's to Russia ?
I talked about friendly governments as in NATO, and other allies such as Israel and Japan. Where the hell did I mention Russia ?

[Loud_Silence]

Originally Posted by goldorak

Who said anything about selling F-22's to Russia ?
I talked about friendly governments as in NATO, and other allies such as Israel and Japan. Where the hell did I mention Russia ?

Sorry for moving away from your topic.

What he meant is that the F-22 is there to warn Russia that they can't do whatever they want.
The biggest problem in the US military is that the equipment is not created by the needs of the soldiers, but by politicians and business interests.
Also, having four armies and some more national guards and reserve forces doesn't help... did the US Army Corp do anything at all during the last Iraq war? And why the US Navy fighters have groud-strike capability? Isn't that a task for the USAF or the Marine air corps?

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by Loud_Silence

IMHO, for several reasons, Russia is not a trustworthy country. Specially after they let eastern europe countries' people freeze and die for not paying the russian gas taxes.

Hah? I don't know if people died when Russia cut off their gas, but what did you really expect Russia to do. Give them gas for free? They aren't nearly rich enough to do that. If you really expect free gas to be handed out when people can't afford it, then perhaps you should think America should buy the gas for the East Europeans.