F-117: 2 Year Life Expectancy

[Weasel Keeper]

2008...make room in the boneyard!

http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Feb-16-Thu-2006/news/5907352.html

 

[TR4A]

F-117: 2 Year Life Expectancy

The newest one is over 15 years old.

 

[ultrarunner]

Got to be some records here.....

one of the most expensive R&D programs vs. the lenght of it's operational life.

Too bad.

 

[Jafar]

Well F/A-22 and F-35 are both more stealthy as far as RCS, right? They're both also supersonic, carry more ordnance, and offer air-to-air. F-117 was the first, and that's great, but the times they are a changing.

 

[blzr]

If we get Hillary elected, we will reduce the national Debt by selling them to IRAN and Syria for top dollar. Oh, almost forgot, we will also be paying alot higher taxes.

IT's THE ECONOMY, STUPID!!!!

 

[JimNtexas]

Well F/A-22 and F-35 are both more stealthy as far as RCS, right? They're both also supersonic, carry more ordnance, and offer air-to-air. F-117 was the first, and that's great, but the times they are a changing.

I don't think the F-22 can carry more air to ground to ordinance than an F-117. Not unless it carries them on pylons, in which case it becomes the worlds most expensive F-15.

It wasn't designed for air to mud, and the USAF has dropped the bogus 'A' from its name.

F-22: Not a pound for air to ground.

 

[Ill Mitch]

F-22: Not a pound for air to ground.

They said the same thing when the Viper was being developed.

 

[JimNtexas]

If we get Hillary elected, we will reduce the national Debt by selling them to IRAN and Syria for top dollar. Oh, almost forgot, we will also be paying alot higher taxes.

IT's THE ECONOMY, STUPID!!!!

If Hillary is elected she won't raise your taxes. She's promised to raise the taxes of that evil rich guy standing next to you.

 

[HawkerF/O]

Oh, almost forgot, we will also be paying alot higher taxes.

IT's THE ECONOMY, STUPID!!!!

That's going to happen regardless. Whoever is next is going to have to raise taxes to pay off this massive federal debt, just like Bush1 and Clinton had to do to clean up Reagan's mess. IT'S SIMPLE MATH, STUPID!!!!

 

[Weasel Keeper]

The newest one is over 15 years old.

Okay, what I implied was they only have two years left.