Just like the "Honey Badger", I tell her to "relax", that simple two syllable word "INFURIATES" her beyond all reason!
ABSOLUTE STOOPIDITY! well that's stretching it but the Navy loves those "pilot-less" birds, and they would really like to drive those Big Boats where they want to, they sure don't want that dictated by the "Air Wing"??
Thanks to old Bob GATES, Dick Cheney, Rummy and Barack Hussein, they killed the F-22, because they lack the principle understanding of "Airpower"! They believed that Russia was no longer a world class threat and that China never would be?? both presumptions have proven not to be true!
Russia and China continue to "ramp-up" their numbers and more importantly their 5th gens and area denial weapons are likely to cause the 4++ gens to wilt if they had to operate in that type of withering environment on the battlefield?
The F-18 is a very fine aeroplane, and easy to operate off the carrier, its a known quantity, it is just a happy bird, and they like Jamming??. Rolling the F-35 on that boat is going to "complicate" everything. It will be a head-ache, it is a single engine, it will "dictate" a completely new maintenance and operational agenda?? I get all that, but look back, the Navy and Marines opted out of ATF and in truth, that decision has made adopting the JSF as their baby such a big deal, that they would prefer not to deal with it.
But the last 20 years are NOT the NEXT 20 years, and the NEXT 20 years after 8 years of the economic and military weakness and "Stasis" of Barack Hussein Obama, have encouraged our enemies domestic and foreign to consider things they never would have considered under George Bush. Its time to bring our Air Force, Marines, and Navy into the 21st century and adopt the F-35 in whole and in total, and integrate our Air-Power into the force for peace that will be demanded by the emerging threat!
Oh, and Happy New Year to you and your's Bub, and don't forget to bring your F-22/F-23 5+ gen onto the drawing table and begin to work on what comes next!
