From: "George Sherwood" 

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:33:45 -0400, Monte Davis wrote:

> If you're interested in aviation/military tech, try the two parallel
> slide shows (both smoking barrels) at:
>
>
http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3389&from_page=../index.cf
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>
> This is what happens when you maintain big budgets while going a long
> time between wars that actually *test* the toys.

They make a few good points, but according to them the F-86 would be the
best fighter ever built.  And I don't buy that at all.  They have a very
narrow view of performance.   I completely ignore radar performance,
speed and climb rate.  I don't see the F-86 even with a large group of them
coming out well against an F-22. The F-22 would only be constrained by
weapons and how many it can take out.

The organization itself hasn't supported any major weapons purchase since
before the B-1.  I see that General Zinni is on the board, but not sure
what is his involvement.

George

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