U.S. warned it could lose air supremacy

[MIKE BURN]

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U.S. warned it could lose air supremacy



Wednesday, June 23, 2004 Posted: 2310 GMT (0710 HKT)



WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- United States must modernize its fighter jets to maintain air supremacy, a top Air Force general said Wednesday citing the success of advanced Russian-made jets against American planes in a recent exercise as signaling an erosion of its overwhelming advantage.



Gen. Hal Hornburg, head of U.S. Air Combat Command, said a U.S. air-to-air exercise with the Indian Air Force in February, in which India used Russian jets to defeat aging American F-15Cs, revealed "that we may not be as far ahead of the rest of the world as we once thought we were."



Russia's Sukhoi aviation works and the Moscow Air Production Organization company have been designing and building increasingly advanced fighters such as the MiG-29 in recent years. India, China and other countries are buying the warplanes -- some with contracts for co-production.



France and Sweden also build advanced combat planes and a consortium of four European countries, including Britain, are producing the Eurofighter "Typhoon" jet.

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[Seismic Anamoly]

Same ol' same ol' for the Air Force...



Scare the crap out of Congress....



Spend a fortune in tax dollars we probably don't need to spend...



The F-15 is (and already was, for about 2 years now) scheduled to be retired soon and replaced by the F-22.



This is just status quo to get the maximum possible funding, half of which will probably be wasted.

Edited by: Seismic Anamoly  at: 6/24/04 20:50

[DreamTone7]

I agree, Seismo. I work for the company building the F-22 Raptor...it's a difficult and expensive aircraft to build. It's mostly composite...and the tolerances are that of a spacecraft. That being said, it'll smoke anything else in the world...and not just by a little.



FWIW, the F-15C isn't exactly our "top-of-the-line" model.

[Seismic Anamoly]

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It's mostly composite...

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And that's the beauty of it, eh??



At 40-50 miles out, you can't see it, but it can see you, and put an AIM 120C up your butt before you even know what happened...



And that Strike Eagle will fly circles around the "C", No??



Thanks for helping to build the Tools of Freedom, DT....

[MIKE BURN]

"Tools of freedom"





...holy crap-nonsense.

[NRKofOver]

Seismo is right as far as Pentagon people creating fear for funding. We are a superior military power and we will be for some time. This is a way to get more money, period.

My music for the disenchanted masses

[Seismic Anamoly]

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"Tools of freedom"





...holy crap-nonsense.

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That "holy crap-nonsense" kept the Soviet Union off your and your parents' free, democratic, music playing, say-what-you-want-to-say-without-being-arrested-or-shot-for-it West German butt for 45 years while your brothers and sisters in East Germany basically endured hell, all the while trying to flee to the West....deny it if you want but the entire World KNOWS it's true...those who don't truly ARE...







Hey!! Pity you weren't born in Dresden or Leipzig...you probably would have loved it!!

[RonOnGuitar]

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Seismo is right as far as Pentagon people creating fear for funding

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Yup, yup - that's the working MO for almost every organization. Non-profits, business, governmental, whatever. All the various depts. claim they need more than they did last year. In fact, if a dept has money left over and a new budget is about to be planned, they spend the extra bucks pronto,lol! It's part of the game.

[Seismic Anamoly]

Sweet!!

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[Seismic Anamoly]

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Penis extensions for inadequate schoolboys......................................

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Sexist.

[Data Thieves]

As well as the rest...!!!