America’s Air Force: No One Comes Close

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  March 18th at 11:06 AM  | 

President Obama and defense secretary Gates are still determining whether to end production, 183 planes in, of the F-22 Raptor, the world’s most advanced Air Superiority fighter. The rationale of those who are advocating cutting off the program is as simple as it is misguided: a belief that “the fighter, conceived in the Cold War, is a vastly expensive and over-capable weapon irrelevant to current | Read More »