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Thanks Marauder. I think you are right as far as the surface-air tribe priorities go being a contributor. I also think that 'Quicksilver' over at F-16.net is right about the homogenization of the CAG, creating one larger tribe out of what was once 2 tribes: 'Air to Air' and 'Strike'. They created a great constituency for the 'status quo'. The Fighter/Strike competition has been reduced to a sibling rivalry. What's been feeding, or giving cover for, whatever resistance the fleet has to the F-35 is the media perpetuating the 'stealth is dead' meme.
Russia or China claims to obviate LO, then the media is either gullible enough and/or technically deficient enough to possibly believe them, and in any case promote, the Russia/China 'dezinformatsia': elevating pretty desperate technical strategies to be somehow 'game changing'.
Nov 16, 2014, 1:10:40 PM
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