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| Current News Reports | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yaakov
Katz - The Jerusalem Post -
03/07/2009 - Israel
hopes Congress will lift F-22 ban |
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| David
A. Fulghum and John M. Doyle - Aviation
Week's DTI - 26/06/2009 - Murtha
Lends Support for More F-22s |
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| Mary
Lou Pickel - The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution - 26/06/2009 - Senate
panel OKs F-22 funding |
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| Yochi
J. Dreazen - Washington Wire
- 26/06/2009 - Air
Force Secretary Repeats F-22 Veto Threat |
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| Michael
Auslin - Washington Examiner -
26/06/2009 - White
House F-22 cuts mean hollow Air Force |
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| Timothy
Walton and Randal Drew - The
Washington Times - 26/06/2009 - Hill
battle for the F-22: Backers rally to save cutting-edge Raptor |
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| News
Report - United Press International
- 26/06/2009 - U.S.-Japan
dance on F-22 continues |
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| James
Pethokoukis - Reuters -
25/06/2009 - US
Senate bill seeks study on export F-22 version |
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| Tom
McInerney and Paul Vallely - HumanEvents.com
- 24/06/2009 - Gates' Epiphany
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| Donna
Borak - Associated Press -
18/06/2009 - Gates:
Money included for F-22 jet a 'big problem' |
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| Mary
Lou Pickel - The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution - 18/06/2009 - Support
grows for building more Raptors |
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| Sam
LaGrone - Air Force Times -
18/06/2009 - ACC
commander: 187 F-22s puts strategy at risk |
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| William
Matthews - Defense News -
18/06/2009 - F-22
Fight Divides Gates, U.S. Lawmakers |
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| Noah
Shachtman - Wired News -
18/06/2009 - Stealth
Jet Revolt Could Mean Pentagon Budget Showdown |
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| Megan
Scully - GovExec.com -
18/06/2009 - Lawmaker
backs more fighter jet funding despite appearances |
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| Jim
Wolf - Reuters - 18/06/2009 -
Top
general warns against ending F-22 fighter |
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| John
M. Donnelly - CQ Politics
- 17/06/2009 - Top
Air Force General Calls Current F-22 Plan ‘High Risk’ |
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| August
Cole - Wall Street Journal -
17/06/2009 - Lawmakers
Make Surprise Move to Keep Lockheed Fighter Alive |
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| Loren
B. Thompson - United Press
International - 12/06/2009 - Obama
should sell F-22 Raptor to Japan |
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| Hari
Sud - United Press International -
12/06/2009 - India
needs a missile defense |
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| News
Report - Middle East Times -
12/06/2009 - Iran
plans air force maneuvers |
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| Jim
Wolf - Reuters - 11/06/2009 -
Global
fighter aircraft market heats up |
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| Jun
Hongo - The Japan Times -
11/06/2009 - BAE
pitching Typhoon as F-22 eludes; Europeans make move amid U.S. export
ban on stealth fighter |
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| Andrea
Shalal-Esa - Washington Post
- 11/06/2009 - U.S.
sees big obstacles to F-22 exports |
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| News
Report - United Press International -
09/06/2009 - Japan
prefers F-22 fighter over F-35 |
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| David
A. Fulghum - Aviation Week &
Space Technology - 03/06/2009 - Japanese
F-22 Campaign Lives On |
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| Matthew
Potter - BNet Government -
03/06/2009 - Congress
Using The Defense Budget To Try To Save The F-22 |
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| News
Report - Government Executive
- 03/06/2009 - Air
Force need for F-35s is under review |
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| Roxana
Tiron - Fox News - 03/06/2009
- Microwave
Missiles: High-Energy Weapons in the Air Force |
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| Craig
Hoyle - Flight International
- 03/06/2009 - Gripen
revives war of words over Norwegian fighter assessment |
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| Christopher
Cavas - Defense News -
02/06/2009 - U.S.
Navy Defends Aviation Plans |
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| Andrea
Shalal-Esa - Reuters -
01/06/2009 - US
lawmakers said exploring F-22 version for Japan |
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| May 2009 |
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| News
Report - Asia One - 31/05/2009
- F-22
deployed to Japan amid tensions |
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| David
Kirkpatrick and Davide Hershenhorn - New
York Times - 30/05/2009 - In
Battle to Cut Billions, a Spotlight on One Man |
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| David
Crane - Defense Review -
29/05/2009 - F-22
Raptor Program: Will we learn from it? |
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| News
Report - Russia Today -
29/05/2009 - International
weapons smuggling ring busted |
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| News
Report - Times of India -
28/05/2009 -
Indian Air Force inducts its first AWACS |
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| News
Report - RIA Novosti -
28/05/2009 - First
Russian AWACS plane put in service with Indian air force |
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| Clifford
J Levy - New York Times -
28/05/2009 - Russia:
Arrests in Spare-Parts Ring |
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| Dave
Majumdar - Examiner.com -
26/05/2009 - Combat
Hammer: Death from above |
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| John
T. Bennett - Air Force Times
- 21/05/2009 - Ga.
senator says support exists for more F-22s |
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| Andrea
Shalal-Esa - Reuters -
21/05/2009 - U.S.
Air Force to regain control of tanker bidding |
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| Andrea
Shalal-Esa - Reuters -
21/05/2009 - US
Air Force sees risk in halting F-22 production |
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| News Report - RIA Novosti - 20/05/2009 - Russia freezes warplane contract with Syria - report (MiG-31) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spencer
Ackerman - The Washington Independent
- 14/05/2009 - Gates
vs. Chambliss (and the Air Force?) on the F-22 |
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| Nathan
Hodge - Wired Blog -
14/05/2009 - Pentagon,
Congress Square Off Over Unconventional War Shift |
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| Donna
Borak - Associated Press -
14/05/2009 - Gates:
weapons projects cuts were 'no brainers' |
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| Alex
Sanchez - Vheadline.com -
14/05/2009 - Separating
Fact from Fiction: An analysis of Venezuela's military power |
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| Jeremy
Lemer and Alex Barker - The
Financial Times - 14/05/2009 - Eurofighter
relief as Brown approves order |
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| Jonathan
Buck - The Wall Street Journal -
14/05/2009 - UK
Commitment Provides Boost For Eurofighter |
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| News
Report - The Straits Times -
14/05/2009 - Vietnam
to buy 12 fighter jets |
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| News
Report - World Tribune
- 13/05/2009 - Major
Russian upgrade said to 'change the face of Algeria's military' |
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| Jung
Sung-ki - The Korea Times -
12/05/2009 - Korea
Seeks to Build Semi-Stealth Fighter |
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| News
Report - RIA Novosti -
12/05/2009 - U.S.
buys Su-27 fighters from Ukraine for 'aggressor' training |
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| News
Report - Domain-B -
11/05/2009 - India,
Russia to discuss roadmap for air-launched version of BrahMos |
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| News Report - MosNews.com - 11/05/2009 - US buys Ukrainian fighter jets | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rowan
Scarborough - The Washington Times
- 11/05/2009 - ANALYSIS:
Gates' Budget Cuts Sour Conservatives |
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| Caroline
Brothers - New York Times -
11/05/2009 - U.K.
Role in Eurofighter Jet Project Is at Risk |
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| Luke
Baker - The Guardian -
11/05/2009 - UK
assessing cost of cancelling Eurofighter deal |
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| Kimberly
White - nwfdailynews.com -
11/05/2009 - F-35
recording deafens Val-P meeting |
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| News
Report - RIA Novosti -
11/05/2009 - Russia
to start flight tests of 5th-generation fighter by yearend |
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| Oleg
Shchedrov - Reuters -
11/05/2009 - Russia's
first post-Soviet warplane to fly in 2009 |
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| News
Report - The Jerusalem Post -
11/05/2009 - Iran
to procure Chinese defense system [HQ-9/FD-2000] |
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| News
Report - Payvand News -
10/05/09 - Russia
'losing to China on Iran S-300 quest' |
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| Andrei
Chang and John Wu - United Press
International - 08/05/2009 - China
readies J-10A fighter for export |
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| News
Report - Rosbalt.ru -
07/05/2009 - China
may supply Iran with analogue of S-300 [HQ-9/FD-2000] |
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| Mackenzie
Eaglen and Eric Sayers - Heritage
Foundation - 05/05/2009 - Independent
Panel Needed for Alternative Views to the Pentagon's Quadrennial
Defense Review |
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| Ben
Blanchard - Reuters -
05/05/2009 - China
rebuffs Australian worries over military |
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| Hugh
White - The Australian - 04/05/2009
- Muddled
report leaves gaps in our defence |
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| John Garnaut - The Sydney Morning Herald - 04/05/2009 - Rudd accused of fuelling new arms race | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bob
Keefe - The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution - 01/05/2009 - Number
of F-22s insufficient, ex-chief says |
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| Michael
Goldfarb - Weekly Standard -
01/05/2009 - Resistance
on Defense Cuts Takes Shape in the Senate |
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| John
Garnaut - The Sydney Morning Herald
- 01/05/2009 - Defence
build-up alarms Beijing |
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![]() The
centrepiece of the Canberra bureaucracy's arguments against the F-22 is
a claim that the aircraft is not an effective bomber, despite the F-22
being the planned replacement for the F-117A Nighthawk bomber since
1999, and the primary element of the planned US Global Strike Task
Force. The F-22 now carries the GBU-32 JDAM and is being fitted to
carry
the latest GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (above). Like most other claims
made by the Canberra bureaucracy to justify the Joint Strike Fighter,
Super Hornet and early F-111 retirement, the claim that the F-22 is not
viable as a bomber is simply fiction (US Air Force image).
![]() F-22A Raptors of the 1st FW deployed to Kadena, Okinawa (Japan), in February, 2007. There is a strong US national interest case that Pacrim allies such as Australia should be operating the F-22A rather than less capable or older fighter types (US Air Force image). |
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![]() The
F-111 is Australia's 'equivalent' to the US B-52 bomber, providing
heavy punch for a variety of strike roles. Despite the size disparity,
the F-111 typically carries around half the 500 lb bomb payload of the
B-52H, albeit to a lesser distance. The US Air Force is likely to still
be flying 1961 built B-52H aircraft in 2037, but Canberra bureaucrats
intend to retire the F-111 in 2010, despite its youth relative to the
B-52H. In 2003 the bureaucracy argued that the cost of running the
F-111
would blow out in coming years. When this
was
proven to be wrong they argued it was non-viable due to the absence
of networking and modern digital weapons. When this argument was proven
wrong by RAAF/Boeing engineers who integrated JDAM and JTIDS networking
using an internal shoestring budget, the bureaucrats are now arguing
unknown structural risks, despite the success of the second wing
fatigue
life extension testing by DSTO, the Cold Proof Load Testing capability
in Australia, extensive wing refurbishment, the ongoing "safety by
inspection program", the available wing refurbishment capability at
Amberley and the very low cost of new build replacement wings as a
fallback option. All of these capabilities exist today; are assuring
the
airworthiness of the F-111 fleet; and, come at a tiny fraction of the
cost of the six billion dollar Super Hornet gap filler. Not a single
argument for F-111 retirement is anything but non-sequitur speculation
by the bureaucracy. Australia's F-111 fleet accounts for 40-60% of
Australia's punch and its loss produces a self induced but very real
capability gap of unprecedented proportions (US DoD image).
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