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Politics : Sioux Nation

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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (159866)	2/6/2009 1:23:28 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (3) of 361952

The incremental cost of each F-22 is around $138 million. Current production is 20 per year. Reducing that to 15 would reduce the F-22 program to around $2 billion per year. It would cost around $400 million to terminate the F-22 program. Once closed, the program can't be restarted quickly. There are long and costly lead times required for F-22 - or any other high tech aircraft - components. It's important that the United States maintain the manufacturing base and brain trust for fighter aircraft, tanks, submarines and naval vessels. That $2 billion a year to maintain a fighter production line of 15 aircraft annually is a lot of money, but in light of the $500 billion Pentagon budget, or the proposed economic stimulus packages, not that much. Don't depend on the Pentagon to make the right choices. Many years ago the Air Force wanted to retire the A-10 and assign its role to modified F-16s. Congress kept the A-10 line open, and the heavily armored, slow A-10 has been a unqualified success in providing close air support to troops on the battlefield. On might argue that if A-10 pilots, being able to fly low and slow and able to visual ID targets, would not be bombing as many wedding celebrations in Afghanistan as the hot shot F-16s which rely on speed, and don't give the pilot much time to look before he shoots.

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