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<b>Air Force Settles On 183 Raptors, Plans New Bomber By 2018:</b> The Air Force has accepted a smaller F-22 Raptor fighter fleet, would like to field a new long-range strike platform around 2018 and expects to commence the competition for a new tanker platform before the end of this year, the service's two senior most officials said yesterday. After maintaining for years that it needed 381 Lockheed Martin built multirole Raptors to meet its future air superiority requirements and replace legacy F-15s and F-117s, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley now maintain that 183 of them will suffice, when coupled with a new, yet-to-be defined bomber aircraft, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and additional global strike assets. "The program of record is, in fact, 183," said Wynne. The smaller total reflects the decisions that are emerging out of the Department of Defense-wide Quadrennial Defense Review that are due for public release today. One of the reasons why the service leaders said they believe that a smaller Raptor fleet is acceptable is because of the new emphasis, supported by the QDR, to field a new long-range strike platform, which Moseley dubbed a "new bomber," by 2018. (Defense Daily)

<i>Well, as I said, I think we can design a dandy purpose built tanker. I welcome a freewheeling competition for the job, as long as the fix isn't in for a warmed over aluminum tube airliner. New bomber projects seem to take forever to define, and then are political nightmares. It could end up being an aluminum tube too. Oh well, work is work.</i>



Ninety percent of the game is half mental.

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now stress stop having dreams of tax payer dollars dancing through your head, while they dance to the shitter. lol

Its not a lockMart jet.... I know this.

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-117 is planned to retired in '08, correct?

JUST cram more Gear in a BUFF, those babies at this rate with see "100yrs Old".
Pilots who first flew them have kids now flying them and if not already GrandChildern flying them but before the Baby is retired I see "Great Grandkids " crewing them.
That is one aircraft that will have to go down as the "Best" of all times and according to the Wings Channel it is.

Goose

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin,
(1706 - 1790)

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Come clean Mudd. Do you have reliable intel?

Ninety percent of the game is half mental.

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I Do, I almost went to work for the company, Bending it.

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Don't tell me you considered flying the aluminum tubes?

Ninety percent of the game is half mental.

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How about this as a single engine tanker concept? It can carry lots of fuel in those wing pods.

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The Second Amendment: America's original homeland security.
Ya just can’t take life too seriously, because you aren’t going to get out of it alive anyway.

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Holy Shit!
...thats allota Blow!


It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Living out of a Suitcase, aint any better than living out of a Travelpod.

Commercial Aviation was never for me.

Northrup Has had some pull for a few years now on a product. Who Knows.... once the the 22 was proposed to be a F/A. the Air Supremacy Nazi's wernt having any of that. So Something got pulled off the pigeon ramp and is being redeveloped due to its F111 type mission capibility...

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.Somebody left the cork out of my lunch.

Edited by - mrmudd on Feb 07 2006 10:06 PM