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F-35 Nearly Six Years Away, Pakistan Buys F-16s
With the formal announcement that the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is now slated for full operational status in November 2015, a two-year delay from the earlier target, the decision to mothball the F-22 Raptor production line looks worse as time passes. True, the two planes are not clones--both are needed. The JSF program is an export fighter to supplant the venerable F-16. Pakistan is a case in point....
Team Obama is selling high-end military gear to Pakistan: advanced smart bombs, drones & late-model F16s. This is part of a deepening strategic relationship between the US & Pakistan. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius cautions his countrymen not to fall in love with Pakistan yet, a wise suggestion.
Bottom Line. America under Obama is continuing the Bush 43 policy of broad engagement with Pakistan. After nearly a decade of often seemingly futile efforts, the cooperation long sought seems to be coming to pass, and with a democratic & competent government in Islamabad.
Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, 9/11, National Security, Foreign Policy, Conservative Politics
F-35 Nearly Six Years Away, Pakistan Buys F-16s - LFTC - Letter From The Capitol
(confusing statement ?,Seems like after 2015,Pakistan has option of F35.Once in full production line)
With the formal announcement that the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is now slated for full operational status in November 2015, a two-year delay from the earlier target, the decision to mothball the F-22 Raptor production line looks worse as time passes. True, the two planes are not clones--both are needed. The JSF program is an export fighter to supplant the venerable F-16. Pakistan is a case in point....
Team Obama is selling high-end military gear to Pakistan: advanced smart bombs, drones & late-model F16s. This is part of a deepening strategic relationship between the US & Pakistan. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius cautions his countrymen not to fall in love with Pakistan yet, a wise suggestion.
Bottom Line. America under Obama is continuing the Bush 43 policy of broad engagement with Pakistan. After nearly a decade of often seemingly futile efforts, the cooperation long sought seems to be coming to pass, and with a democratic & competent government in Islamabad.
Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, 9/11, National Security, Foreign Policy, Conservative Politics
F-35 Nearly Six Years Away, Pakistan Buys F-16s - LFTC - Letter From The Capitol
(confusing statement ?,Seems like after 2015,Pakistan has option of F35.Once in full production line)
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