...to work for Lockheed Martin. These things are freakin awesome. When I was down in Dallas/Ft.Worth they were tooling up the line for F-22 production. The 35 is soon to follow, though I am not working on it so I do not know when. The beauty part about the JSF is you have one spare parts base, not four or five.

As for replacing my beloved A-10...NEVER. You haven't lived until you've seen a GAU-8 30mm depleted uranium shower turn a tank into shredded wheat. The thing can out-turn an F-16, completely lose one engine, carry 16,000 lbs. of mixed ordinance, and the pilot sits in a bathtub or armor capable of stopping 57mm rounds. NOTHING is comparable to the Warthog as a ground pounder. Long live the hog !!

-The SmilingBandit strikes again !!-
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. "
-Gen. George S. Patton-