Quote from Free Thinker:
in the information age with video cameras and satellites everywhere do you think we might know if china ever decides to build a fighter that we need to worry about? you dont build these things over night. it takes years to build up a military industrial complex.
Did we know they were developing a missile that could shoot down satellites? They are in the process of building up. And India I believe is working on a stealth fighter as well. IMO it is better to stay ahead of the curve. You keep ignoring the fact that there is a bunch of worthless, purposeless garbage that we could cut right now without downgrading our defense at all. So many agencies, grants, programs, public funding of private companies, foreign aid, entitlements, mathematically unsustainable govt pensions, government pay and bennies, govt jobs etc., it is a very long list.. the F-22 is somewhere near the bottom.