http://washingtonindependent.com/32582/defense-contractors-gird-for-fight/f22-raptors National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://washingtonindependent.com/32582/defense-contractors-gird-for-fight/f22-raptors/comment-page-1#comment-34735 westmoreland Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:10:13 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/f22-raptors.jpg#comment-34735 The continued braying by those opposed to the Raptor, claiming that it is too expensive and that it is unneeded is simply a lie. By comparing the Raptor to its closest counterparts throughout the world the Raptor is a steal. The Eurofighter and similar projects in China and Russia cost about the same as the Raptor but do not come close to matching its capabilities. Also the call that we should be concentrating our resources on building unmanned fighters is a strange one because though unmanned fighters/bombers may be the future, it has nothing to do with the airframe and design of the plane. The planes that are being paraded as future unmanned fighters are toys. Give a Raptor unmanned capabilities and then you will have something. The continued braying by those opposed to the Raptor, claiming that it is too expensive and that it is unneeded is simply a lie. By comparing the Raptor to its closest counterparts throughout the world the Raptor is a steal. The Eurofighter and similar projects in China and Russia cost about the same as the Raptor but do not come close to matching its capabilities. Also the call that we should be concentrating our resources on building unmanned fighters is a strange one because though unmanned fighters/bombers may be the future, it has nothing to do with the airframe and design of the plane. The planes that are being paraded as future unmanned fighters are toys. Give a Raptor unmanned capabilities and then you will have something.

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/32582/defense-contractors-gird-for-fight/f22-raptors/comment-page-1#comment-21236 westmoreland Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:10:13 +0000 http://washingtonindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/f22-raptors.jpg#comment-21236 The continued braying by those opposed to the Raptor, claiming that it is too expensive and that it is unneeded is simply a lie. By comparing the Raptor to its closest counterparts throughout the world the Raptor is a steal. The Eurofighter and similar projects in China and Russia cost about the same as the Raptor but do not come close to matching its capabilities. Also the call that we should be concentrating our resources on building unmanned fighters is a strange one because though unmanned fighters/bombers may be the future, it has nothing to do with the airframe and design of the plane. The planes that are being paraded as future unmanned fighters are toys. Give a Raptor unmanned capabilities and then you will have something. The continued braying by those opposed to the Raptor, claiming that it is too expensive and that it is unneeded is simply a lie. By comparing the Raptor to its closest counterparts throughout the world the Raptor is a steal. The Eurofighter and similar projects in China and Russia cost about the same as the Raptor but do not come close to matching its capabilities. Also the call that we should be concentrating our resources on building unmanned fighters is a strange one because though unmanned fighters/bombers may be the future, it has nothing to do with the airframe and design of the plane. The planes that are being paraded as future unmanned fighters are toys. Give a Raptor unmanned capabilities and then you will have something.

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