The American Enterprise Institute (bless their little neocon heart--note neocons really are not "conservative" in any normal sense) have stated the U.S. needs more stealth aircraft in the Pacific.
They are right, but their solution is wrong.
Their primary fix for all this is to "invest heavily" in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).
The problem is that the F-35 is not survivable for the threats mentioned. That and the F-35 is neither affordable or in possession of any worth-while range.
The F-35 program is also defective.
They also don't understand that we only have about 120 combat capable F-22s. This is what you get when you build complex "A" models of anything these days.
The AEI is in no way skilled up on this issue or the solution. Best for them to go back and do more extensive research.
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AEI doesn't have the chops for this type of analysis. Better leave the strategic thinking to the CSBA - the Pentagon actually listens to them...
Wouldn't have been nice to have a few FB22s right now? It would have kept the line hot, yeah, not greatest range but better than nothing or F35...
Anything flying in the Pacific with a combat reach of less than 1.500 nm is a waste of money.
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