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F/A-22, a Cold War fighter: hypocrisy or realism?

Washington, USA - Criticism still considers it in this manner but those who defend it remind now that all the US operated means have been developed in such a setting

Those criticising the Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor multirole stealth interceptor fighter constantly remind that it represents a product of a strategic way of thinking which is completely different from the one stemming from the current operational needs, that is to say an airplane designed to operate in the ended Cold War setting. Those who defend the programme answered recently in a new manner against...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 117077
Rome, Italy, 03/24/2005 17:07
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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