(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-22

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So wieder einige news am Montag werden wir es genauer wissen. Normalerweise währe ich über jede erhöchung der F22 Produktion hoch erfreut aber wenn man auf der anderen Seite lesen muss das man die Träger auf 9 reduzieren will so muss man fast heulen.


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Obama's Defense Cuts

ust days after Chinese warships harrased an unarmed U.S. naval vessel, the USNS Impeccable, in international waters off the coast of China, Barack Obama's Secretary of Defense is set to announce massive cuts to the U.S. naval fleet.

Just days before the expected launch of a North Korean missile in violation of the spirit if not the letter of every agreement Pyongyang has ever signed with the international community, Barack Obama's Pentagon will release a budget that guts the U.S. Missile Defense Agency.


This according to a report from InsideDefense.com citing sources "close to the budget process." According to those sources, Gates will essentially terminate the Missile Defense Agency and with it Boeing's Airborne Laser System which was considered particularly well suited to the missile threat from North Korea.

Gates will further announce that the United States will have to make do with just nine aircraft carrier battle groups. The Navy currently has eleven, already considered a shortfall by the Senate Armed Services Committee which objected when the Bush administration decommissioned the USS John F. Kennedy in 2006 due to fiscal constraints. The shovel-ready, already under construction USS Gerald Ford, the first of the Navy's new class of supercarriers, will be delayed.

On the upside, Gates is expected to announce an increase in the end strength of the F-22 fleet from the current 183 to 250, keeping the production line open for at least another three years. The Army's deservedly maligned Future Combat Systems program will also be restructured and the massively over-budget program to replace the president's fleet of helicopters will be terminated.....

Sollte es wenigstens mit den F22 stimmen so währe dies wenigstens ein schwacher Trost für das Ende von 2 Trägern und der gesamten Raketenabwehr. Kim und Co werden sich nun richtig Doll freuen! Was daran um so erstaunlicher ist die Tatsache das Gates alle seine Überzeugungen verraten hat, er war nämlich ein Befürworter der Raketenabwehr und der Nuklearen Abschreckung nun kennt er nur noch Afghanistan wie armselig. Ich hoffe das sowas wie Gates nie der Republikanischen Partei beiträten wird !