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I know F110 is relatively less fuel consuming compare to Russian counterparts, but two of these are still use good amount of it, especially with heavier loadout.
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A minor point, but just to clarify: no U.S. F ...

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I'll add one I'm reading right now.<br/>
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Dan Hampton ... <I><s>[i]</s>The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War<e>[/i ...

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I personally find the F-35 defenders to be as tedious as the F-35 detractors on several military discussion boards (or blogs...)
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I've had the same experience. Between the haters who can't find anything right ...

<t> Compared to the "merger" of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, this is small potatoes. Still doesn't feel quite right, but I understand it's part of the business of buying and trading business.<br/>
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The longer term question is: will Lockheed try to relocate Sikorsky to a lower-cost market ...

Thanks again. Some good reading.

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If anything, the CATOBAR requirement was actually the nasty one, too. This was the LM CALF (JSF predecessor, STOVL and conventional takeoff) proposal:<br/>
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The F-35C's CATOBAR requirement was harder to fill than the STOVL's ...

Still seems strange to think of the Blackhawks as a Lockheed product. We really are down to three big mega-contractors in the U.S. Pardon me if I'm a little nostalgic.

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Thanks for sharing Sunburn. An interesting topic.<br/>
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This is a controversy that is far from settled. To briefly summarize, Stillion makes the following points:
<UL><s>[ul]</s><LI><s>[*]</s>Air-to-air combat has transitioned from gun-based to missile-based kills over the past ...

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If problems in the database are that well known then it's likely that they corrected them when compiling the data.
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Stillion did not correct for these errors in the database. The CSBA report credits the Iranians with "over two hundred ...