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First F-22 bound for Pacific unveiled

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Representatives from the Air Force and Lockheed Martin gathered to accept Pacific Air Forces' first F-22 Raptor Feb. 12 at Marietta, Ga

15-02-2007 - MARIETTA, Ga -- This latest F-22 will be among 36 others that will make up the first F-22s assigned to PACAF at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens said the F-22 will play a key role is guaranteeing American superiority of the sky over the Pacific.

"General Billy Mitchell once observed this: Alaska is the most strategic place in the world ... whoever holds Alaska will hold the world," Senator Stevens said.

The F-22 is the Air Force's newest fighter aircraft. Its combination of stealth, supercruise, maneuverability, and integrated avionics, coupled with improved supportability, represents an exponential leap in warfighting capabilities. The F-22 performs both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions allowing full realization of operational concepts vital to the 21st century Air Force.

Gen. Paul V. Hester, the PACAF commander, said the F-22 will show America's continued commitment to maintain peace and stability in the Pacific.

"An important part of this business is to know and show the foes of America ... who stand against our allies and friends ... that you have the capacity, the capability, as well as the will to use that power," General Hester said.

Source: US Air Force News Agency
Photo: U.S. Air Force photo/John Rossino

COMMENTS:

Maintaining air superiority over the Pacific and elsewhere throughout the globe will require building a lot more than 180 F22 air frames. Once again the bean counters have cut production from 750 to 350 to approx. 180 air frames.
American security is once again being compromised. It never ceases to amaze me how incompetent fools come to power and control procurement. I guess they have to find a way to justify their own worthless existence. The F22 is a fine aircraft. I have to ask myself - why is the Navy putting its future on a single engine/single seat F35. I smell the bean counters again. Why was the F111 Aardvark replaced by the single engine F16 with a third of the combat range. The bean counters have stuck again. A thought has crossed my mind that the liberal politicians and bean counters are in fact communists, and they are attempting to destroy our countries air superiority. Need I remind you that he who controls the high ground controls the battle space.
We need to build some 700 of these air frames for the air force, and modify this BIRD so as to allow the Navy to use it as well. We most definitely have the technology but not the resolve to use it. Having 2 squadrons of an F22 Naval variant on each Nimitz Cl. Carrier would give the US Navy a real edge in aerial combat.

Don Alo | posted on Mar 08, 2007 @ 18:23

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