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Government Oversight
U.S. Construction Project in Afghanistan Challenged by Inspector General's Report
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, The Washington Post
Financial Oversight
Bill Would Dramatically Jack Up SEC Fines on Securities Firms
Mark Schoeff Jr., Investment News
Law's Big Weapon Sits Idle
Michael Rapoport, The Wall Street Journal
Britain Begins Review of Libor
Mark Scott, The New York Times
Energy Issues
Drillers in Utah Have a Friend in a U.S. Land Agency
Eric Lipton, The New York Times
National Security
The Army Tank That Could Not Be Stopped
Aaron Mehta and Lydia Mulvany, iWatch News
How to Defeat the Air Force's Powerful Stealth Fighter
David Axe, Danger Room
Revolving Door
Lobbyists for General Dynamics Who Passed Through the Revolving Door
Ajani Winston, iWatch News
Watchdogs Raise Issues with GOP Armed Services Aide
Jeremy Herb, The Hill
The comments from the german pilots mirror the tactics the F-15 pilots have used successfully against the F-22, get in close and try to out turn the F-22 until they run out of energy and then close for the kill. The F-22, with its thrust vectoring, will turn very tightly, but due to its poor aerodynamics it loses energy very quick as it does this. Even with its huge engines, it cannot make up for the loss of energy. The canard equipped European fighters turn more efficiently than the F-15, so they have an even bigger advantage in the merge.
The best strategy for a stealth fighter are hit-and-run tactics. The airplane stays fast, hits hard, and disappears quickly. The F-22 is too slow to do hit-and-run. The F-23 was much better suited to those tactics and was dismissed by the USAF because they wanted the better dog fighter. What they ended up with was neither a good dog fighter nor a good hit-and-run stealth fighter. It is nothing but expensive and unreliable.
Posted by: Dfens | Jul 30, 2012 at 01:50 PM