...will carry on the same tradition. If they need Fighters, why not buy used Tornado ADVs? ... to ask "are you serious?". Tornados aren't fighters (just like the F111 was never a fighter), the ADVs are interceptors built with 1970's technology. There's...out. I was asking about buying fighters that could be had quickly now vs. ...pipeline." That is, if they need fighters *right now.* The F/A-18s aren't ...

...not just superiority but air supremacy fighters that were in there, up there...leap in capability over 4th generation fighters. It has been demonstrated that a...at a multi-engined air superiority fighter and filling in the details with...-wielding firefighters from the 1st Fighter Wing finally extracted Spears after ... Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). The problems with this ...one can point to in a fighter aircraft. Until a significant amount ...

On Sep 18, 7:49 pm, Addinall <addin...@addinall.org> wrote: Any of the current 4.5 fighters will wipe the F-35 from the sky. "Oh but it's stealthy, it will kill you from a ...that the combination of stealth, speed, sensor integration, and platform integration makes it a huge leap in capability over 4th generation fighters. It has been demonstrated that a small number of F-22s can sustian air superiority over a given battle space, even ...

... carry on the same tradition. If they need Fighters, why not buy used Tornado ADVs? ...to ask "are you serious?". Tornados aren't fighters (just like the F111 was never a fighter), the ADVs are interceptors built with 1970's technology. There's...phasing them out. I was asking about buying fighters that could be had quickly now vs. waiting...in the pipeline." That is, if they need fighters *right now.* The F/A-18s aren't...

.... The neo-Taliban now control at least twenty Afghan districts in Kandahar, Helmand, and Uruzgan provinces. It is hardly a secret that many officials in these zones are closet supporters of the guerrilla fighters. Though often characterized as a rural jacquerie they have won significant support in southern towns and they even led a Tet-style offensive in Kandahar in 2006. Elsewhere, mullahs who had initially supported President Karzai's...

...we know most women could never hack the fire dept., police dept. etc.. we know that standards have been lowered for women just to get them into these work areas which dillutes the integrity of those professions.. eg. fire fighters used to have to lift a certain amount of weight to simulate removing an injured person from a burning building.. but under the idiocy of Feminism, a woman is assigned the same job simply to fill a gender quota,...

...Australia may in coming decades be put in the invidious position of having no option but to pay whatever Lockheed Martin asks during future contract negotiations for the ongoing maintenance of Australia’s strike fighters."" ----------------------------------- Well, another great deal for the ADF. Well fucking done. Not only have we bought vapourware, we paid to have the smoke blown, continue to keep paying whilst the SINGLE example ...

... what I've seen so far, the F-22 and F-35 will carry on the same tradition. If they need Fighters, why not buy used Tornado ADVs? ******* My turn to ask "are you serious?". Tornados aren't fighters (just like the F111 was never a fighter), the ADVs are interceptors built with 1970's technology. There's a reason the UK is phasing them out. -- "Those who ...

... of work to make them combat ready. From what I have seen to date, the F-35 MIGHT be 'combat ready' in another 10 years, and only if it is coming up head to head with tourists in Cessnas. Any of the current 4.5 fighters will wipe the F-35 from the sky. "Oh but it's stealthy, it will kill you from a distance". Hint. The USSA is not the only country with missiles or RADAR. If you want to compare something, compare the F-35 to an ...

... reaction, it's always enjoyable the way it comes quasi instantly, as a reflex. :) Rest assured that reluctant taxpayers face similar trouble independently of whether their taxes go toward health care or stealth fighters. As towards the service levels of universal health care, they really aren't any worse than those of government run wars to ensure oil stays 'cheap'. Government has no interest in having oil 'cheap'. Government...