{"id":191215,"date":"2009-09-12T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/12\/law-change-on-f-22-exports-proposed\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T17:25:00","slug":"law-change-on-f-22-exports-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/12\/law-change-on-f-22-exports-proposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Change on  F-22 Exports Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, 10 years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.govexec.com\/dailyfed\/0909\/091109cdpm3.htm\">this might have meant somehing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Senate Appropriations Committee voted unanimously Thursday to approve an fiscal 2010 Defense spending bill that would allow the Defense Department to develop an export version of the radar-evading F-22 Raptor fighter jet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, not so much.<\/p>\n<p>If the line gets restarted, here is what you have to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replace almost every chip on the plane with one that whose line wasn&#8217;t shut down in the past 5 years (the US fleet has spent large amounts on building up inventories of these chips prior to shutdown of their lines).<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Rewrite the software for the new chips.<\/li>\n<li>Rewrite the software so that potential opponents will not be able to get critical information on the functioning of the US F-22 fleet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Improve the reliability of the coatings.<\/li>\n<li>Develop a new sensor suite so that potential opponents will not be able to get critical information on the functioning of the US F-22 fleet.<\/li>\n<li>Integrate non-US weapons (France &amp; UK mostly) into the airframe.<\/li>\n<li>Keep the cost per plane at current levels.<\/li>\n<li>Be able to deliver the plane in less than 5 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If we are asking for all that, how about a pony too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, 10 years ago, this might have meant somehing: The Senate Appropriations Committee voted unanimously Thursday to approve an fiscal 2010 Defense spending bill that would allow the Defense Department to develop an export version of the radar-evading F-22 Raptor fighter jet. Now, not so much. If the line gets restarted, here is what &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1211,964,1016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense","category-foreign-relations","category-international-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191215"}],"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=191215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}