From The DEW Line:
I quoted Richard Aboulafia last week expressing skepticism that the US Air Force would actually sacrifice the cause of buying more F-22s in order to give the F-35 program a needed funding boost.
This morning, Aboulafia's argument gets an unwitting assist from the Air Force Association.
The air force's main advocacy and lobbying group posted a new presentation to their website today. The brief is titled, "F-22 vs. F-35 comparison", and the conclusions are heavily stacked in favor of the former.
In fact, I'm curious what several foreign governments will think after having invested hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in the F-35's development, largely because of performance promises from a US government that apparently doesn't really like the fighter.
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My Comment: OK ..... if this is the case ..... why are we buying the F-35. Oh yeah .... I forgot .... POLITICS.