冷期的，美大不的投入尖端武器的研，除了核子之外，武器也不改良，方不最精良的武器在量上也是不充。
一架造三五千美元的(F-22)，即使是美也府大的。如果所面的人是游主，那又能派得上用？近年美得外似乎也只有1991年的波斯2003年的伊拉克侵略用得到先，好次都是打伊拉克。
1983年 入侵格拉（撤）
1989年 侵略巴拿，捉拿瑞加。（首次用了6架F-117A形炸）
1990年 利比，派遣一支由、作部，
地中海抵利比附施撤行。
1991年 波斯“沙漠暴”
1992年 合安理的，美派遣多人的部，加在索利的援助行。
影「黑」就是描一事件。
1994年 在合授的干下，海地的阿里斯蒂德重返位。
拉耶佛波士尼的和任。
1998年 恐怖分子美肯和坦尚尼大使的炸，
用"斧"同丹和阿富汗境的目。
1999年 北在巴半的和任。
2001年 入侵阿富汗
2003年 入侵伊拉克
取消F-22，要要便宜，但可因劣境以一般汽油做燃料的正是充分反映了型的化。(另一方面也要求F-35加速生，美2,443架)冷都束了那久了，美空一直都有其略部署上大的盲。怪乎Robert Gates 空感冒。
回想JSF案是在本世初的呢！上查了一下是在2001.10.26, 那似乎也未曾考到美有多任或是盟邦是不需要如此昂精良的的。防需求也是呈Ｍ型化展！
The Air Force Seeks the F-22's Low-Tech AlternativeBy Mark Thompson / Washington Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
The Air Force spent years fighting to keep building the
$350 million F-22 fighter, an airplane crammed with so much gee-whiz technology there's a law barring it from being sold to any other nation. But since no other nation is building such a plane to challenge it, the F-22 has become a costly investment with an uncertain payoff, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates just killed it. That sent an unmistakable message to the two new top Air Force officials Gates recently appointed, and now the service is seeking 100 slower, lower-flying and far cheaper airplanes most likely prop-driven that it can use to kill insurgents today and use to train local pilots such as Afghans or Iraqis tomorrow.
The list of requirements for what the Air Force is calling its
Light Attack Armed Reconnaissance plane is fairly basic, and harkens back to the Vietnam-era A-1 Skyraider. It must be capable of flying 900-mile missions at up to 200 miles per hour (compared with up to 1500 mph for the F-22), including at night and poor weather. It will carry guns and rockets, along with a pair of 500-pound bombs, according to an Air Force solicitation issued last month. It will have to fly to and from dirt airfields where the only ground support is fuel. The its two pilots will have warning systems for enemy radars and missiles, an armored cockpit and self-sealing fuel tanks and ejection seats if those protections fail. It should convert from an attack plane to a trainer by simply removing those weapons.
Planes likely to vie for the contract slated to begin flying in 2012 include the Kansas-built Hawker Beechcraft T-6, currently the Air Force's basic trainer, and Brazil's Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano, which the U.S. Navy may buy to support SEAL missions. After being trained on the aircraft, foreign forces could buy such planes for their own use.
This emphasis on down-and-dirty warfare is a real change for the Air Force, which for years has been hyper-focused on building the most sophisticated fighter planes in the world. The military blog Danger Room recently quoted from Air Force studies dating back to 2005 that spoke of the service's "pre-occupation with procurement of the F-22" at the expense of counter-insurgency missions, and its "nasty habit of forgetting the hard-learned lessons of irregular operations." Its Cold War hangover got so bad that Gates complained during a speech to Air Force officers last year that getting the military to fight today's wars was "like pulling teeth."
The Air Force's new top officer has said this low-tech aircraft "is really consistent with Secretary Gates' thinking" in favor of simple weapons that can be bought quickly and perform more than one mission. A rugged and simple warplane that can be flown against insurgents by U.S. pilots who also train foreign pilots in their own language "is a very attractive way to approach this problem," General Norton Schwartz, the Air Force chief of staff, said in April.
His civilian boss concurs. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley recently said that such a plane "will help build up the security capabilities of partners facing counter-terrorist operations, counter-insurgency operations." Nations like Afghanistan and Iraq "are not going to be able to and do not have a need to operate at that higher end of the conflict spectrum," he added. Nor can they afford to the $350 million used to buy each of the 187 F-22s will pay for a flee of about 50 of these planned counter-insurgency warplanes.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1918849,00.html
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