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The F-22 is the machine that it is because it's the last fighter designed during the Cold War when they actually spent real money and took time and effort in creating the perfect killing machine. Now the focus is more like a Ford frame design where they look at flexible architectures to pump shit out quickly and efficiently for the money allocated. Australia has locked itself into the funding the fucking JSF program which has more of a combat support role which is pathetic for our region's defense capabilities. We're going from F-111's with deep strike capabilities and the kind of range required in Australia to fucking JSF's (crippled export models) which have half the range of the Russian fighters neighboring countries like Indonesia are buying. We need to be able to buy Raptors.
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