{"id":110045,"date":"2017-12-04T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:57:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:57:22","slug":"this-is-why-we-need-f-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/04\/this-is-why-we-need-f-22\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Why We Need the F-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<p>From the Interfax News Agency: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/e\/B\/0\/28.html?id_issue=11716695\">Test flights of fifth-generation aircraft to be held in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By  comparison, our &#8220;first&#8221; fifth-generation fighter, the F-22 is already  operational.  Our next fifth-generation aircraft, the F-35 (Joint Strike  Fighter) is <a href=\"http:\/\/formerspook.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/numbers-game.html\">now in limited production, although there&#8217;s some debate over how quickly they&#8217;ll be produced.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In  both cases, the Russians are still playing catch-up in the fighter  business&#8211;and that&#8217;s the way we want it.  With initial flight testing in  two years, the Moscow&#8217;s advanced fighter won&#8217;t be in series production  until sometime well into the next decade.  By that time, we&#8217;ll have even  more advanced F-22 Raptors on the ramp, and many of the F-35s will be  in service with the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and our NATO allies.       <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called maintaining air supremacy, and it again  illustrates why both the F-22 and F-35 are essential to that task.   There will be one notable difference between the F-22 and its Russian  competitor.  The Russian jet will almost certainly be offered for the  export market, while the U.S. (currently) has no plans to see the Raptor  abroad.  Availability of a fifth-generation Russian jet might cause us  to rethink that position, although the Air Force has made it clear that  no one else gets the F-22&#8211;not even longtime allies like Israel, South  Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Interfax News Agency: Test flights of fifth-generation aircraft to be held in 2009. By comparison, our &#8220;first&#8221; fifth-generation fighter, the F-22 is already operational. Our next fifth-generation aircraft, the F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter) is now in limited production, although there&#8217;s some debate over how quickly they&#8217;ll be produced. In both cases, the Russians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}