If it's so great why have we entirely abandoned its production lineThey deployed it in the middle east because other platforms weren't surviving and really expensive assets kept getting destroyed.
It was a highly demanded asset, we have never exported the F-22 and nothing is more survivable it was highly requested especially after Russia had deployed their SU-57 to the middle east.
Because when Obama was president he said that it was a cold war weapon we don’t use and there wasn't any SU-57 or J-20. So they said there was no need for a superiority fighter. China and Russia apparently paid attention.If it's so great why have we entirely abandoned its production line
The F-22 is both cheaper and an objectively better fighter than the F-35. "Multi-role" is codespeak for design-by-committee. Sell that trash to the foreigners and produce F-22s.Because when Obama was president he said that it was a cold war weapon we don’t use and there wasn't any SU-57 or J-20. So they said there was no need for a superiority fighter. China and Russia apparently paid attention.
I remember at the time congressman Ron Paul criticized Obama for choosing to dismantle the F-22 program in order to produce the F-35 instead but Obama said famously the cold war was over in the debates.
For the same reason the USMC tweeted out rainbow bullets on its official channel for #PrIdEMoNtH ... globalist infiltration and organizational-capture by the Woke mafia. The F-22 is the best fighter we have ever built. The F-35, however, is definitely a boondoggle.If it's so great why have we entirely abandoned its production line
The F-22 is both cheaper and an objectively better fighter than the F-35. "Multi-role" is codespeak for design-by-committee. Sell that trash to the foreigners and produce F-22s.
The MIC hates air-superiority fighters because they are a fundamentally defensive strategic weapon. You don't invade foreign countries with air-superiority fighters (way too expensive)... you defend your own shores with them. And if you have a robust domestic defense based on air-superiority, nobody is getting in, no matter what invasion force they bring, because they won't be able to defend their invading aircraft against being shot down by your superior fighters; once shot down, they won't be able to defend their invasion fleet which will make them sitting ducks for defensive bombers. But that formula won't slop $2T+ per year to the war-pigs in the MIC so they prefer BS like "multi-role fighters".
They should combine the F-35 with the KC-135, then it can refuel itself during combat maneuvers.The local air national guard's F-16s make me feel safe enough in my bed at night. It has been so long since there has been a major conflict that these fighter designers are designing materiél for theoretical wars.
The result? Boondoggles like aircraft even we can't afford to build even after the development work is paid for (F-22) and aircraft that can't do their jobs (F-35). Getting hamstrung by mission creep ruined the 35 before it had a chance, just like the F-111 and XB-70 decades earlier. The 22 was affected by the same sort of chutzpah which turned out projects like the XP-55 and the XP-79, which cost millions and accomplish nothing but the untimely demise of a test pilot.
How does this happen? Frustrated wannabe bullies look at fancy wazoo garbage and get stars in their eyes thinking of all the brown people they can kill,
Who was president 5 years ago?Even though it was FIVE YEARS in the making and he had NOTHING to do with it
The guy just can't resist a stroke of his ego, even when he rubs that thigh by himself!
Ooooo, feels sooo good !!!
Who was president 5 years ago?
Who was president 5 years ago?
Trump was in charge when the program reached the actual prototype phase, and he is in charge when it goes into service.DARPA officials say 10 YEARS - So they should be the F-44, named after Obama
"Today, we’re proud to be able to share the 10-year DARPA research arc that has culminated in the F-47 program"
DARPA X-planes paved the way for the F-47 | DARPA
www.darpa.mil
It's the true American spirit, we trolled the British when the nation was born.Trump is a troll.
Musk ia a troll.
Vance is a troll.
They troll everyone. Now they're trolling Chy-na.
Whether you like them or hate them, the trolling is glorious.
"America. Fuck yeah."It's the true American spirit, we trolled the British when the nation was born.
Trump embodies the real America.
China is building over 100 5th generation J-20 fighter jets per year.
You can't just stop building fighter jets or in 10 years China will have 1000 more 5th generation fighter jets atleast and all of our f-22s will all be retired.
10 years is not a long time and you can't just turn on a faucet and produce 900 modern jets in a year.
F-16s aren't a really a superiority fighter that can defeat other F-16s or 5th and 6th generation aircraft equivalent in a fight.Just build more new F-16s. They actually work.