Murika must learn from Good Hands...a country defence is a long term investment, right Boss John?

[k1976]

https://sg.yahoo.com/news/us-air-force-seems-hell-143533168.html

Given the stakes, the Air Force should be extremely careful about grounding a single F-22 – to say nothing of grounding more than 30 of them. Especially considering that the F-22’s notional replacement, the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter, is on the budgetary chopping block starting in 2026.

If the Air Force and the US Congress don’t find a way to pay for the NGAD program and Congress lets the Air Force retire 32 older F-22s, the Air Force could soon find itself in a dangerous position: with a need to wrest control of the air from a growing and modernizing Chinese air force with a shrinking and aging fleet of F-22s – and with no help on the horizon for potentially decades to come.

 

[k1976]

Incredibly, those 32 older Block 20s aren’t the only fighters the Air Force wants to retire early. The service also wants to cut half of its Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle fighter-bombers while simultaneously reducing the number of new F-15EXs it buys.

The cuts might be less worrying if the Air Force’s other in-production fighter, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, weren’t such a disaster.

The Air Force is decades behind and hundreds of billions of dollars over-budget compared to its original plan to acquire more than 1,700 F-35s – and hasn’t taken delivery of a new F-35 in a year as it waits for testers to work out kinks in the fighter’s latest software build.

The Air Force is in a fighter crisis. But it’s not going to solve that crisis by grounding training jets – and shrinking an air-superiority force that’s probably already far too small.

 

[k1976]

Commissar TanWahTiu must be able to sleep well tonight...555

 

[k1976]

https://sg.yahoo.com/news/german-shipyard-hands-over-second-152952516.html

Sinki Navy did it again

Now operate 2nd Satik German Type 219SG Uboat