Do you actually think the comparison will occur? If so, would we all line up and buy F 22. Not. Oh well, we'll just buy some PAK from the russkies. No wait, that won't buy us any advantage, will it? Maybe some J 20's then. No, wait, no advantage there, either. There is no doubt the whole process was well and truly f@cked up. But where to from here?
If you want to be competitive, (itself possibly arguable), you really only have 3 choices now. Pay the price demanded and accept the possible shortcomings, buy some PAK or J 20, (see above), or develop your own, yeah that one'll work!
Of course, you could always go the old method of older frames but plenty of them. After all, at 10 or 15 to 1 even the almighty gen 5 fighters won't have it all their own way, will they? No wait, that'll work out more expensive anyway. Everyone seems to coming up with problems, not seeing a lot of solutions tho.
Kopp lost whatever credibility he had with his farcical plans for the pig. Wonderful aircraft that it became, no amount of care and money made it survivable these days.
Last edited by porch monkey; 14th Mar 2012 at 06:46.