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[robbe21]

Behold the Military Industrial Complex in action!

[tippership]

did you forget, that th raptor gts CHEAPER with TIme? IT's $100 million, dummy

And, its because they're NOT using it.

ALl the planes(that are aging, and have bad maintenance, and are proven to be a rising havoc), that bomb over there, and d oroles like SEAD< the raptor could do....

as for the production, nice try, but you cant pin that on anything really. 10 years ago? sorry buddy, we didnt have that sort of capabilitity.....not with this technology...

[kevingthompson13]

@MYRWX I didnt know the enemy had f18s & f15s. That means somebodys wasting time and money playing war games against planes unlike anything China or Russia has. Sounds like a Bush/Cheney plan to me. Lets let Haliburton built them....THEY DID A HELLUVA JOB FOR US IN THE GULF OIL SPILL DERRICK! The Thunderbirds demoed them here for several weeks (I live near Lock-Martin plant in Atlanta). when they came for airshow in 2007. The pilots hated them, said they were dangerous, and rejected them.

[kevingthompson13]

@taans1 F16s were going to be a cheaper alternative to f15 for DOD because they lacked the super heavy airframe and engine package specified for USN specs due to carrier duty. The Falcon is a USAF plane. Both are fine products. Its is of pertainent note: The Advanced Elite USAF Demonstrator Squadron Thunderbirds turned down the YF22 ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS citing instability in manuevering at speed. Flying wing has never overcome this aerodynamic flaw. Northrup F117 had same issue, in backup role.

[kevingthompson13]

@ratbat53 According to pentagon stats from 2008 US Senate hearings: Total production from 1986 til 2007 was 189 craft. Specifics were not given as to the breakdown of how many were prototypes/demonstrators, and flaw correcting redesigns. Also not given in this figure was the number designated as YF23-f35. It was disclosed that approx 80 of the total were either crashed or storaged for parts due to severe airframe problems. The remaining total was described as in "tactical support." -DOD source.

[kevingthompson13]

@MYRWX I dont believe THAT YOU COULD FLY THIS PLANE. This Northrup "flying wing" crap is highly unstable and prone to crash related failures. We have gotten so corp/politically CORRUPT in this country that ANYBODY THAT CONTRIBUTES ONE DOLLAR to a campaign expects HUGE CONTRACT RETURNS. Any military device that depends on a 1986 core processor IS NOT STATE OF THE ART AIRCRAFT! The real engineers were the guys at McDonnell Douglas. They gave us MANY dependable products. NO PROPAGANDA.

[MYRWX]

If we do not put this acft back into production we are going to be VERY sorry. As an Aeronautical Engineer & Pilot I can tell you with 100 % confidence that there is Nothing in this world like a Raptor. Nothing. There is a NEED for this machine on a Grand Scale. We have a lot of Old Iron out there on the Flight line. The JSF, latest model F 15 and even the S Hornet do NOT have the same capability. It is not uncommon for as many as 8 Hornets or Eagles to fall VICTIM to a Raptor the never see.

[paravidinopatrick]

@ratbat53 about 160..... 

[Magnedudewon2]

im going to be realistic: we need to improve the design so that it has longer range and bigger weapons payload and less maintenance and then we need to build about 400 more of these raptors.

[ratbat53]

Obama has stop poduction of the f22 for now I have no Idae how many we have in servise already.

[no4go2]

he's thinking of the F117 witch lost some of its stealth in the rain. F22 is a totaly new aircraft and so many of these people that trash it don't realize that. They point out problems it will have with new equipment other nations have, but do they realy think they developed this machine without any knowledge of them?

Wanna bet they trashed the F15 when it came out and look at what it has acomplished.

[triplepogi2009]

Yep.

Same fate.