With an every increasing threat from countries who's economies are surging and infusing huge amounts of money in their military the U.S. must produce fighters, bombers and aircraft of all types not just in terms of cutting edge, world beating technology but in numbers that will maintain the military dominants that the U.S. has enjoyed for over a half a century. The attitude that we can buy less then 200 fighters to accomplish this is ludicrous not to mention dangerous. With more effective SAM, AAM's and IR detection it is highly cost effective for other less developed military's to erase the technological superiority of these advanced aircraft so there is no getting around the need to have aircraft in substantial numbers. The recent decision to once again reduce the amount of F/A 22'S is an example of this. It is now at a figure of less then 200 aircraft when only a few decades ago fighters were purchase in the thousands as was the fighter the F/A 22 is supposed to replace (F-15) as the air superiority fighter for the U.S. which by the way is an absolute must to have and maintain air superiority in any conflict and you can't do that particularly in multi theater operations when you don't have the aircraft to pull it off. The monetary constraints are well understood but it is the most important necessity and the number # 1 priority to insure that we can fight and win any conflict so though we have the F-35 also on the horizon let us remember it isn't here and won't be for quite a while. The same things can be said of our navy etc but this is a difficult enough topic to stay focused on and I challenge those of you in the know to talk about it. Hutch
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