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2009-02-18 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2009-02-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Lavi, lavi, lavi.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-18 07:12|| 2009-02-18 07:12|| Front Page Top

#2 We need the F-22 in larger numbers if for no other reason than to replace the ancient F-15 airframes as they wear out.

Lavi? Junk. C'est Lavi.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-18 08:16|| 2009-02-18 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Well that's the question isn't it, OS. One could argue that the F-35 is capable enough that we should buy more of them instead of the F-22. I'm not an aviator and have no idea in the end what the right policy is.

The article makes a great point: our military takes air supremacy as the starting point for a lot of what it wants to do. If we don't have that the ground-pounders are potentially in big trouble.

Posted by Steve White 2009-02-18 10:53|| 2009-02-18 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Shows what you know OS.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-18 11:29|| 2009-02-18 11:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Our dependence on UAV and air cover demands that the F-22 be bought in sufficient numbers as to guaranteed superiority from the git-go.

Without it, our Army and Marine forces have become simply too few and too light to fight under circumstances other than air superiority.

As much as I rag on the zoomies here, the F-22 is required, if for nothgin else, as a deterrent.

THe F-35 can replace the harrier, F/A-18 and F-16 as it was designed to do.

It is not a replacement for the Starship.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-18 11:53|| 2009-02-18 11:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Grom, you are wrong. You show that you are a simpleton and an arrogant bigot, as is usually visible from you bilge filled posts. Piss off like the good little simpleton you are, Adults are talking here.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-18 11:54|| 2009-02-18 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 And FYI, the4 Lavi was cancelled 20+ years ago.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-18 11:56|| 2009-02-18 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 And if you want a Lavi, go buy a Chinese J-10 Chengdu - the bastard Israelis sold the tech and design from the Lavi to the Chinese who built the J-10 off of it (Jerusalem Center for Public affairs revealed that).

The Lavi was scarcely better than a C Block 50 F-16 and inferior to the F/A-18F Super Hornet.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-02-18 12:01|| 2009-02-18 12:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Actually I like you OldSpook---you're soo well informed & intelligent. Knowing you helps me to understand how USA went from being Word's bastion of free enterprise to socialism in two generations.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-18 13:03|| 2009-02-18 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Just like knowing you tells us all about how Israel went from the Yom Kippur War to tolerating Hamas and Hezbollah running mini-states on its borders.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-18 13:15|| 2009-02-18 13:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Grom:

You have socialism and fascism mixed up. We are headed toward a modern mix of national socialism and East German liberty.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-02-18 13:16|| 2009-02-18 13:16|| Front Page Top

#12 A fine article in The Atlantic and a pun by OS. Truely, 'tis a day of wonder! OK, Ok, anything by Mark Bowden is good. But the pun was unexpected.

Posted by SteveS 2009-02-18 14:31|| 2009-02-18 14:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Trough the good services of our friends at DC.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-18 20:12|| 2009-02-18 20:12|| Front Page Top

#14 F-22, waste of money. Until someone can challenge an F-15 we are just developing capability for our opponents to steal.

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