Modern, but a total waste (F/A-22 Raptor)

Published: Nov 11, 2004
Source: www.journal-advocate.com



The Air Force is in rapture over its new baby, which it has named Raptor. We taxpayers, however, can be forgiven if we're less than enraptured by the recent birth of this F/A-22 fighter jet, for it's the most expensive war plane in history, it's not needed, and there are serious doubts about whether it'll even work.

The Raptor was conceived 23 years ago in the heat of the Cold War. It was intended to replace the trusty F-15 and was designed to battle a new jet the Soviets were developing. But the Soviet jet never got off the ground, the Soviet Union itself collapsed, the Cold War is long gone, and the enemies we battle today are far different, requiring entirely different weaponry.continue..