{"id":191701,"date":"2009-07-04T05:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/04\/veto-threat-on-f-22-and-f136-authorizations\/"},"modified":"2009-07-04T05:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T10:44:00","slug":"veto-threat-on-f-22-and-f136-authorizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/04\/veto-threat-on-f-22-and-f136-authorizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Veto Threat on  F-22 and  F136 Authorizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/25\/328829\/obama-threatens-vetoes-on-f-22-f136-decisions.html\">threatened a veto on both programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m of a mixed mind on the programs.<\/p>\n<p>While it is clear that the F-22 is overpriced, and does not address foreseeable threats, the F136 alternate engine for the JSF seems like a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>The P&#038;W F100\/GE F110 engine competition saved a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">lot<\/span> of money, and produced more reliable engines.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the F136 seems to have more growth potential than the F135, and this is needed, particularly for the STOVL F-35B.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the funds to continue F136 development are about the cost of procuring just 2 more F-22s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has threatened a veto on both programs. I&#8217;m of a mixed mind on the programs. While it is clear that the F-22 is overpriced, and does not address foreseeable threats, the F136 alternate engine for the JSF seems like a good idea. The P&#038;W F100\/GE F110 engine competition saved a lot of money, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1038,998,1211,1128,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-budget","category-congress","category-defense","category-propulsion","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191701"}],"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=191701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}