Originally Posted by
Iron Bar
Spray?
- Steategic goals. Whatever the government of the day determines. Right now support to our major ally in several theaters and regional stabilization to our North. (Effective support to major ally negates the need for strategic capability in the sense I think you are referring)
F15 doesn't have the sensor and communication capabilities of F35. As far as I know F15 no longer in production?
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I don!t know if the F-15 line is still running, actually. On that basis I guess the question is moot. If you need a new fighter then you have we to buy fifth generation. And that really means, given realpolitik, the F-35.
Strategic: When I was a boy that meant the Westinghouse W-63. It probably still does in whatever the current version.
Anyway... I think the Chinese discovered that you don't need to invade anywhere if you have time and money.