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PAK-FA is just a stolen copy of F-22
buddy this is the result if you watch too much yotube
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PAK-FA is just a stolen copy of F-22
but still raptor is more sexy and has got a futuristic design !
The F-22 may or may not be a better plane, but it just isn't worth the money. An enormous development cost, high unit cost and very maintainence intensive.... I think that could lead to a lot of headaches, especially in a war. The PAK FA has been made with a budget that is only a fraction of the F-22s and is designed as a multi-role fighter wheras the F-22 is originally an air superiority fighter which is now modified for multiple roles. Value for money is very important and PAK FA gives much more punch for the buck than F-22.
..has the PAK FA been made? is it being produced in large enough quantities for you to make this comment?PAK FA has been made with a budget that is only a fraction of the F-22s
heard it all before.. but can you prove it is 'maintenance intensive'?:blah! blah! blah!
The United States' top fighter jet, the Lockheed Martin F-22, has recently required more than 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in the skies, pushing its hourly cost of flying to more than $44,000, a far higher figure than for the warplane it replaces, confidential Pentagon test results show.
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Premier U.S. Fighter Jet Has Major Shortcomings
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Growing Costs for the F-22
The aircraft's radar-absorbing metallic skin is the principal cause of its maintenance troubles, with unexpected shortcomings -- such as vulnerability to rain and other abrasion -- challenging Air Force and contractor technicians since the mid-1990s, according to Pentagon officials, internal documents and a former engineer.
While most aircraft fleets become easier and less costly to repair as they mature, key maintenance trends for the F-22 have been negative in recent years, and on average from October last year to this May, just 55 percent of the deployed F-22 fleet has been available to fulfill missions guarding U.S. airspace, the Defense Department acknowledged this week. The F-22 has never been flown over Iraq or Afghanistan.
Sensitive information about troubles with the nation's foremost air-defense fighter is emerging in the midst of a fight between the Obama administration and the Democrat-controlled Congress over whether the program should be halted next year at 187 planes, far short of what the Air Force and the F-22's contractors around the country had anticipated.
"It is a disgrace that you can fly a plane [an average of] only 1.7 hours before it gets a critical failure" that jeopardizes success of the aircraft's mission, said a Defense Department critic of the plane who is not authorized to speak on the record. Other skeptics inside the Pentagon note that the planes, designed 30 years ago to combat a Cold War adversary, have cost an average of $350 million apiece and say they are not a priority in the age of small wars and terrorist threats.
..has the PAK FA been made? is it being produced in large enough quantities for you to make this comment?
Guys F-22 had its 1st flight in 1990 and PAF-FA in 2010, you know well that USA have many secret programs, may be USA would have completed a jet much more better then PAK-FA, because defence budget of is nearly 12 times higher as compared to Russia!
No...It does not. All you did was repeated the same debunked nonsense a long time ago. The F-22 is stationed in Alaska. You might want to use something called 'google' to check up on Alaska and see how is it that if the F-22 is oh-soooo 'vulnerable' to water the Pentagon decided to station it in Alaska.Here's an extract from an article in washingtonpost.com:
I hope that proves my point.
No...It does not. All you did was repeated the same debunked nonsense a long time ago. The F-22 is stationed in Alaska. You might want to use something called 'google' to check up on Alaska and see how is it that if the F-22 is oh-soooo 'vulnerable' to water the Pentagon decided to station it in Alaska.
Here's an extract from an article in washingtonpost.com:
I hope that proves my point.
As mentioned in the above extract, F-22 production stopped at 187 aircraft which results in a very high flyaway cost. The PAK FA however has a far less developmental cost and unit cost. Both Russia and India have already decided to induct 250 fighters each. There is also the possibility of further orders and possible exports.
F-22 problems linked to rain in Guam
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Oct 5, 2009 11:53:34 EDT
Rain and Raptors don’t mix.
Wet conditions at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, caused mechanical problems in a dozen F-22 Raptor fighters deployed to the Pacific island from the much less rainy Alaska.
Guam, about 3,800 miles west-southwest of Hawaii, averages 80 to 110 inches of rain a year, according to the National Weather Service. The U.S. territory gets much of its precipitation during the rainy season of July through December.
The jets’ cooling systems drew in moisture from the air, which caused shorts and failures in sophisticated electrical components.
..no it doesn't prove anything. It just proves that you are gullible and believe everything you read on the internet.
When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hangar. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn't want Obama speaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end.
"White House aides actually made them remove the F-22-said they would not allow POTUS to be pictured with the F-22 in any way, shape, or form," one source close to the unit relayed.
So you are suggesting that i should instead be gullible and believe everything you say blindly... After all, you are the most reliable source of information...