Posted
4/11/2004 04:07:00 PM
by Douglas
Sell your Lockheed stock
now. Looks like the military isn't interested in an update of their 30 year old aircraft just yet.
"It's obvious that we're paying a heavy price, I think, for not having had enough troops there from the beginning," the Arizona Republican said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
McCain said both the U.S. Army and the Marine Corps must be expanded overall, a position at odds with President Bush's administration. The United States has about 135,000 troops in Iraq, a number that McCain said must rise.
As part of a broad overhaul of U.S. priorities, he said, the Pentagon may have to scrap the $71 billion Air Force program to buy F/A-22 air-to-air fighters built by Lockheed Martin Corp.
So we're dropping the F/A-22 air-to-air fighters (really, what other kind of fighter is there besides
air-to-
air?) and we're dropping the
Comanche helicopter in favor of older, cheaper, proven technology.
It's good to see that the military is finally realizing that they can't win without men on the ground, but jeez, what a price they're paying. Considering all this technology is 30 years old, it's quite fitting to say we're gearing up to fight Viet Nam with WWII technology. All the way from the
M-16 to the
F-16. . . they're all
at least 30 years old. Considering the technology we're up against, camels, box cutters, and rusty Soviet Army surplus junk, this may not be a bad idea. But man, talk about being content with living in the 20th century.