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Old 01-29-2018, 04:45 PM   #750
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Originally Posted by Zulu29 View Post
Barf. How can replacing our jets take so bloody long???
Chances are they're going to push the decision off until after the next election. Then they'll decide on the plane, and here's my bet.

Lets say they do pick the F-35, I'll be shocked by ok. We want 88 F-35's.

And Lockheed will snicker and say, if you would have ordered these things years ago, you would have been at the front of the line, but now everyone else has ordered theirs, you're at the end.

I would be shocked if this time line isn't a might ambitious.

Or lets say that they decide on the Gripen E/F which is I believe their first test flight was last year.

So nowhere near looking at production.
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