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Originally Posted by afchic
True as your comment may be, how would our onward movement of purchasing more F-22s help the situation? I don't remember seeing anything saying that we were planning on stationing any of them in any of those locations, although I may be wrong. So other than stationing them on China's doorstep, how would the additional production be beneficial?
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Very true. I don't know if the discontinued F22 is any better or worse than the F35, so I'm not smart enough to be upset over stopping the F22 program. I do think, though, that regardless of having no plans today to forward deploy an advanced fighter has little impact on our ability to do so in the future, so long as we actually have the aircraft in the inventory and not still stuck in blueprint or test flight status. Balancing cost vs. future security need projections is a tought nut to crack...I'm glad its not my job.
