An F-22 Raptor stealth fighter aircraft cost about $135 million each. I truly believe that the defense establishment in the United States is so locked into an all-immersive mythical world of determined, intelligent, resourceful enemies that it cannot even imagine that this plane is a monumental waste of money. But in their dreams, Hitlers are born every moment, waiting to rise up and harness the technological genius of a new generation of Von Brauns and they will, in short order, build a better, faster fighter than ours, than the current F-15 Eagle.
Who is the Raptor going to shoot down?
The F-15 has never, ever been shot down in aerial combat. Can you see why we need to spend $65 billion to replace it? Boeing and Lockheed/Martin know why. Because they make fabulous amounts of money by convincing idiots like Donald Rumsveld that some day in the future someone will — out of thin air, apparently– invent a faster, better fighter.
Why can’t Canada wait until someone shoots down, let’s say, one F-15. And then we’ll start thinking about a new fighter.