(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-22

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Jetzt so Kurz vor der Stunde Null in der US Verteidigung noch ein Artikel aus von F16.net eine der Kompetentesten Seiten die meine Kritik an der F35 und die Fürsprache für die F22 untermauert.


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Misleading senior political leaders is no way to fix the problems that face the Air Force.


The United States Air Force (USAF) takes its combat air acquisition priorities to the Hill yet can’t even properly explain what the risks are by throwing all the fighter procurement dice into stealth aircraft.

On the 25th of March, Lieutenant General Mark “Shack” Shackelford, the acquisition deputy to the assistant secretary of the Air Force had a big chance to explain combat air acquisition priorities to the U.S. House Appropriations Committee. He didn’t do so well. By going with marketing hype, spin and sophistry of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the USAF would have been better off if he didn’t show up that day.

The following statement if anything is misleading to our elected officials. “The F-35 was designed from the bottom up to be the Air Force's premiere surface-to-air-missile killer and is uniquely equipped for the mission with its cutting edge processing power, synthetic aperture radar integration techniques and advance target recognition."

This is false. One best bone up on the history of the JSF program and not fall into after-the-fact sales lingo from the F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin. The F-35 is going to look awful silly getting pushed into skill-sets it was never designed for as the “premiere surface-to-air missile killer” because it doesn’t have the survivability to take on emerging long range area SAM threats.

Some in General Shackelford’s peer group don’t agree either. Major General Rick Lewis USAF(ret), who formerly lead the F-22 program, stated in the March 17, 2008 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology that, “The key to the F-22’s advantage over the F-35 is its speed and stealth optimized to counter advanced and integrated air defense systems. The F-35’s survivability and effectiveness would be much less than that of the F-22 because it employs subsonic speeds, lower altitudes, lower G and has half the missile load.” If any aircraft is a “premiere surface-to-air-missile killer”, it is the F-22.........

In einigen Stunden wird es sich zeigen ob es mehr F22 gibt oder nicht, ich werde mal in Amerikanischer Tradition das beste Hoffen obgleich ich mir fast sichern bin das Mister War on Terror eine der größten Fehler der nächsten 20 Jahre begehen wird.