{"id":188625,"date":"2010-08-22T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/22\/trying-to-go-b-1-with-the-f-22\/"},"modified":"2010-08-22T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T10:02:00","slug":"trying-to-go-b-1-with-the-f-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/22\/trying-to-go-b-1-with-the-f-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Go B-1 With the F-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed and the USAF have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2010\/07\/30\/345519\/lockheed-to-preserve-f-22-tooling-for-future-use.html\">reached an agreement to preserve the F-22 production tooling for future use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The claim is that this is about, &#8220;will be able to repair and modernise the service&#8217;s aircraft, or <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">manufacture new Raptors<\/span>.&#8221; (Emphasis mine)<\/p>\n<p>Make no bones about this:  This is not about SLEPPing the airframes or upgrades, they don&#8217;t need the tooling for this.<\/p>\n<p>They are hoping for a President, SecDef, and Congress will at some point change policy, as Reagan did with the B-1, and this is the sort of insubordinate crap that really needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i4.tinypic.com\/15qdr93.gif\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" \/>In a perfect world, Obama would find out who is behind this, fire them, and take the tooling and sell it for scrap.<\/p>\n<p>In <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">this<\/span> world, we&#8217;ll see the pigs at the trough every year or so for the next decade in an attempt to restart the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed and the USAF have reached an agreement to preserve the F-22 production tooling for future use. The claim is that this is about, &#8220;will be able to repair and modernise the service&#8217;s aircraft, or manufacture new Raptors.&#8221; (Emphasis mine) Make no bones about this: This is not about SLEPPing the airframes or upgrades, they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,970,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}