Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: SecDef Gates must go now. Obama gets his chance to go later

Thursday, February 18, 2010

SecDef Gates must go now. Obama gets his chance to go later

For YEARS I have been saying that the idea that 751 air superiority F-15's can be supplanted by 183 F-22's is a canard of the highest order, and and best a self delusionary catastrophe which would catapult American air superiority needs into a sudden decade of patchwork catch up.

Air superiority is THE BLOCK on which is built American military superiority, ANYWHERE.

Last month the Russians finally introduced the PAK-FA fighter, and this week Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak visited Russia amid evaporating solid support for Israel by the American govt, as we appoint an American envoy to the OIC ..where the racist pig Mahathir received a standing ovation for his racist comments on JEWS (not Israelis).

And now from the WEEKLY STANDARD:

Russian Raptor Killer is a "Game Changer"

The end of air supremacy?

BY Michael Goldfarb

February 17, 2010 9:32 AM
In an open-source assessment of Russia's Sukhoi PAK-FA, aka the Raptor Killer, Air Power Australia concludes, "once the PAK-FA is deployed within a theatre of operations, especially if it is supported robustly by counter-VLO capable ISR systems, the United States will no longer have the capability to rapidly impose air superiority, or possibly even achieve air superiority." Moreover, the Obama administration's decision to kill the F-22 air superiority fighter in favor of the multi-role F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (epaminondas notes.. Nancy Pelosi has already announced her intention to cut F-35 numbers by 25% before the first one goes into service) may prove disastrous, as "the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter struggles to survive against the conventional Su-35BM Flanker... Against [a basic-model] PAK-FA, the F-35 falls within the survivability black hole, into which US legacy fighters such as the F-16C/E, F-15C/E and F/A-18A-F have already fallen."

When the Obama administration killed the F-22, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made the administration's case in a speech before the Economic Club of Chicago. Gates explained that F-22 was unnecessary because nobody else was anywhere close to fielding an aircraft comprable to F-35, let alone F-22:

Consider that by 2020, the United States is projected to have nearly 2,500 manned combat aircraft of all kinds. Of those, nearly 1,100 will be the most advanced fifth generation F-35s and F-22s. China, by contrast, is projected to have no fifth generation aircraft by 2020. And by 2025, the gap only widens. The U.S. will have approximately 1,700 of the most advanced fifth generation fighters versus a handful of comparable aircraft for the Chinese. Nonetheless, some portray this scenario as a dire threat to America's national security.