Word: planes
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...slung, sharply angled killing machine. In the air, the advanced jet fighter is not only fast (sprinting up to twice the speed of sound) and agile (pitching and rolling like a Piper Cub) but almost invisible to enemy radar. If the Air Force has its way, the plane will rule the skies for the better part of the 21st century...
...venerable F-15 Eagle, now more than 15 years old. The full cost of the new Advanced Tactical Fighter, stretched out over more than two decades, could exceed $95 billion in today's dollars -- $32 billion more than the contract for the B-2 Stealth bomber, the most expensive plane in Pentagon history...
Others question the Air Force's requirement that the ATF be both stealthy and highly maneuverable, a specification that helped push the cost of the plane to more than double that of the F-15. Planes must be agile to win dogfights, but since the ATF is supposed to destroy enemy aircraft long before it is seen, such encounters should never occur...
...strongest argument against the ATF is its cost. Speaking at a hearing of a Senate Armed Services subcommittee last week, Congressional Budget Office analyst Robert Hale declared that under its current budget restrictions, the Air Force simply cannot afford the plane. To build the full complement of ATFs will require either dropping the Multi-Role Fighter (the successor to the smaller F-16) or further reducing overall air strength...
...Does the U.S. need a plane costlier than...