{"id":197643,"date":"2008-01-21T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/once-again-usaf-shows-that-it-wants-toys-more-than-it-wants-to-protect-nation\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T05:07:00","slug":"once-again-usaf-shows-that-it-wants-toys-more-than-it-wants-to-protect-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/21\/once-again-usaf-shows-that-it-wants-toys-more-than-it-wants-to-protect-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, USAF Shows That It Wants Toys More Than It Wants to Protect Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England <a href=\"http:\/\/aviationweek.com\/aw\/generic\/story.jsp?id=news\/F22011808.xml&amp;headline=England%20Wants%20GWOT%20Money%20For%20More%20Raptors&amp;channel=defense\">wants to use GWOT money to to keep the F-22 line open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With no meaningful difference in stealth, and the F-35 being smaller, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">supposedly<\/span> cheaper, more flexible (adapting it to electronic attack is easier) and capable of carrying a better bomb load, the only thing you get for the F-22 is that it flys higher and supercruises, neither of which have any meaning in the strategic context of <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">any<\/span> potential opponent we can see.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article.  It&#8217;s fairly clear that this is the result of mindless USAF lobbying over the past dozen years or so, and this is a case where the adults in the DoD, by which I mean the JCS and the civilian leadership, have been far too passive in reigning the flyboys in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England wants to use GWOT money to to keep the F-22 line open. With no meaningful difference in stealth, and the F-35 being smaller, supposedly cheaper, more flexible (adapting it to electronic attack is easier) and capable of carrying a better bomb load, the only thing you get for the F-22 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197643"}],"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=197643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}