Re: No budget to upgrade F-22s to fifth generation jet fighters

Ron wrote:
On Aug 22, 9:56 am, hcobb <henry.c...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://appropriations.house.gov/witness_testimony/DE/Mark_Shackelford...
There is also an Increment 3.3 upgrade planned, which is currently
unfunded. It includes Mode 5/S, which is the next generation
Identification Friend or Foe and advanced air-traffic control
transponder, radar auto search/auto detect, which gives automated
target cueing using fourth generation AESA radar, and a ground-moving-
target-indicator-and-tracking capability.

Automatic situational awareness is the defining mark of the fifth
generation fighter.

When will this upgrade to fifth generation status be funded?

-HJC

Wow, just wow.

Do you come up with these things all on your own? Apparently so, you
come up yet again with your own definition of a 5th generation
fighter. What will be it next week, that a true 5th generation
fighter needs to have an automatic Margarita machine installed?

I don't know about me but I know a few pilots that just might go with that as long as includes a tall drink of Blond server it.
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