Military Embedded Systems

Roundup: The F-22 - Innocent victim or ready for the axe?

Story

August 13, 2009

Roundup: The F-22 - Innocent victim or ready for the axe?

With its Cold War-planted roots recently hoed by SECDEF Gates' recommendations, nothing (except possibly FCS) elicits the same collective sigh of disappointment as saying goodbye to the F-22. But was it really a bad move for our Armed Forces?

 

Figure 1


21

 

Rep. Barney Frank (D., MA) (file photo; courtesy The Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts)

(Click graphic to zoom by 1.6x)


22

 

 

With its Cold War-planted roots recently hoed by SECDEF Gates’ recommendations, nothing (except possibly FCS) elicits the same collective sigh of disappointment as saying goodbye to the F-22. But was it really a bad move for our Armed Forces?

Check out these links to articles and information from The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Center for American Progress, and even a press call with Congressman Barney Frank (D., MA) and decide for yourself:

Articles

Audio

[Photo credit: An F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis June 22 - U.S. Navy photo/Petty Officer 1st Class Ronald Dejarnett]

 

Categories
Avionics - Computers
Topic Tags
8.2.22PHP Version206msRequest Duration2MBMemory UsageGET avionics/{uri_path?}Route
    • Booting (174ms)
    • Application (32.03ms)
    • 1 x Booting (84.44%)
      174.17ms
      1 x Application (15.53%)
      32.03ms
      0 templates were rendered
        uri
        GET avionics/{uri_path?}
        middleware
        web
        controller
        App\Http\Controllers\Frontend\ArticleController@viewArticleByShortname
        namespace
        App\Http\Controllers
        prefix
        where
        file
        app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:35-49
        4 statements were executed12.3ms
        • select * from `articles` where `shortname` = 'roundup-f-22-innocent-victim-ready-the-axe' and `publish_at` < '2025-03-19 05:08:36' limit 1
          5.66ms/app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:42mes
          Metadata
          Bindings
          • 0. roundup-f-22-innocent-victim-ready-the-axe
          • 1. 2025-03-19 05:08:36
          Backtrace
          • 16. /app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:42
          • 17. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
          • 18. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
          • 19. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:259
          • 20. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
        • select * from `categories` where `categories`.`id` in (1000)
          2.44ms/app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:42mes
          Metadata
          Backtrace
          • 21. /app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:42
          • 22. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
          • 23. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
          • 24. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:259
          • 25. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
        • select * from `categories` where `categories`.`id` in (1)
          1.13ms/app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:42mes
          Metadata
          Backtrace
          • 26. /app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:42
          • 27. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
          • 28. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
          • 29. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:259
          • 30. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
        • select * from `article_types` where `article_types`.`id` in (2)
          3.07ms/app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:42mes
          Metadata
          Backtrace
          • 21. /app/Http/Controllers/Frontend/ArticleController.php:42
          • 22. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Controller.php:54
          • 23. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/ControllerDispatcher.php:43
          • 24. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:259
          • 25. /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php:205
        App\Models\ArticleType
        1
        App\Models\Category
        2
        App\Models\Article
        1
          _token
          stMBZNVO6ZXpoCGOj2j804EtqonaoWXmyo7SBSCe
          _previous
          array:1 [ "url" => "https://dev007.militaryembedded.com/avionics/computers/roundup-f-22-innocent-v...
          _flash
          array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ]
          PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA
          []
          path_info
          /avionics/computers/roundup-f-22-innocent-victim-ready-the-axe
          status_code
          200
          
          status_text
          OK
          format
          html
          content_type
          text/html; charset=UTF-8
          request_query
          []
          
          request_request
          []
          
          request_headers
          0 of 0
          array:24 [ "sec-ch-ua-mobile" => array:1 [ 0 => "?0" ] "sec-ch-ua" => array:1 [ 0 => ""HeadlessChrome";v="129", "Not=A?Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="129"" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache" ] "pragma" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache" ] "cdn-loop" => array:1 [ 0 => "cloudflare; loops=1" ] "priority" => array:1 [ 0 => "u=0, i" ] "upgrade-insecure-requests" => array:1 [ 0 => "1" ] "user-agent" => array:1 [ 0 => "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)" ] "cf-connecting-ip" => array:1 [ 0 => "18.223.29.51" ] "accept" => array:1 [ 0 => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7" ] "sec-fetch-site" => array:1 [ 0 => "none" ] "cf-visitor" => array:1 [ 0 => "{"scheme":"https"}" ] "sec-fetch-mode" => array:1 [ 0 => "navigate" ] "sec-fetch-user" => array:1 [ 0 => "?1" ] "x-forwarded-proto" => array:1 [ 0 => "https" ] "cf-ipcountry" => array:1 [ 0 => "US" ] "accept-encoding" => array:1 [ 0 => "gzip, br" ] "sec-fetch-dest" => array:1 [ 0 => "document" ] "sec-ch-ua-platform" => array:1 [ 0 => ""Windows"" ] "x-forwarded-for" => array:1 [ 0 => "18.223.29.51" ] "cf-ray" => array:1 [ 0 => "922a73f0c8916326-ORD" ] "host" => array:1 [ 0 => "dev007.militaryembedded.com" ] "content-length" => array:1 [ 0 => "" ] "content-type" => array:1 [ 0 => "" ] ]
          request_server
          0 of 0
          array:47 [ "USER" => "forge" "HOME" => "/home/forge" "HTTP_SEC_CH_UA_MOBILE" => "?0" "HTTP_SEC_CH_UA" => ""HeadlessChrome";v="129", "Not=A?Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="129"" "HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL" => "no-cache" "HTTP_PRAGMA" => "no-cache" "HTTP_CDN_LOOP" => "cloudflare; loops=1" "HTTP_PRIORITY" => "u=0, i" "HTTP_UPGRADE_INSECURE_REQUESTS" => "1" "HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)" "HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP" => "18.223.29.51" "HTTP_ACCEPT" => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7" "HTTP_SEC_FETCH_SITE" => "none" "HTTP_CF_VISITOR" => "{"scheme":"https"}" "HTTP_SEC_FETCH_MODE" => "navigate" "HTTP_SEC_FETCH_USER" => "?1" "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO" => "https" "HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY" => "US" "HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING" => "gzip, br" "HTTP_SEC_FETCH_DEST" => "document" "HTTP_SEC_CH_UA_PLATFORM" => ""Windows"" "HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" => "18.223.29.51" "HTTP_CF_RAY" => "922a73f0c8916326-ORD" "HTTP_HOST" => "dev007.militaryembedded.com" "REDIRECT_STATUS" => "200" "HTTPS" => "on" "SERVER_NAME" => "dev007.militaryembedded.com" "SERVER_PORT" => "443" "SERVER_ADDR" => "209.38.74.90" "REMOTE_PORT" => "" "REMOTE_ADDR" => "18.223.29.51" "SERVER_SOFTWARE" => "nginx/1.26.2" "GATEWAY_INTERFACE" => "CGI/1.1" "SERVER_PROTOCOL" => "HTTP/2.0" "DOCUMENT_ROOT" => "/home/forge/dev007.militaryembedded.com/public" "DOCUMENT_URI" => "/index.php" "REQUEST_URI" => "/avionics/computers/roundup-f-22-innocent-victim-ready-the-axe" "SCRIPT_NAME" => "/index.php" "SCRIPT_FILENAME" => "/home/forge/dev007.militaryembedded.com/public/index.php" "CONTENT_LENGTH" => "" "CONTENT_TYPE" => "" "REQUEST_METHOD" => "GET" "QUERY_STRING" => "" "FCGI_ROLE" => "RESPONDER" "PHP_SELF" => "/index.php" "REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT" => 1742360916.7884 "REQUEST_TIME" => 1742360916 ]
          request_cookies
          []
          
          response_headers
          0 of 0
          array:5 [ "content-type" => array:1 [ 0 => "text/html; charset=UTF-8" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [ 0 => "no-cache, private" ] "date" => array:1 [ 0 => "Wed, 19 Mar 2025 05:08:36 GMT" ] "set-cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6Im5OcC9DRkhkMStmWVlIcXBmY1Btd2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWmd5WllES2dIUGRXVWd3N3VqRS9sMVdmeTJ5aHJ4T2I5aGp5ZXFIRS9aRnlYQmhxbXV4V2hyaHJiR1JnSnhkSzhUd3o4RTNyZmc2NFJzekk4MjErQkpSZFZleE02V2RFNEZqdnVhaTd0RWxpejNSSzVRWXhKUlNWcHgwakJKbjAiLCJtYWMiOiI2YmQxOGM3ZDhkNGY3ZmVkNmY2NDgzMDM1ZDEyYTZjYjExOTczMDNlNGQ5NTI5YTBhNzVmMmMxZjE1YTFmZTNmIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:08:36 GMT; Max-Age=7200; path=/XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6Im5OcC9DRkhkMStmWVlIcXBmY1Btd2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWmd5WllES2dIUGRXVWd3N3VqRS9sMVdmeTJ5aHJ4T2I5aGp5ZXFIRS9aRnlYQmhxbXV4V2hyaHJiR1JnSnhkSzhUd3o4R" 1 => "military_embedded_systems_session=eyJpdiI6IllSM3dqM1c0TnR3aTYwaHNBSXZvV2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiNUlNczIxck5qY0hTeWlKcDFvbHFWb2xWTTJYcys4RFNCT2ZFV29rWXh5dkxBMWhwcitkbXpIZFNESHRRTkVYeTVCbml4dytDOS9PK3NIalVvNy8xaU41bmp2Q0dyaktoVEVjaDNUdUVHM2RsL1ZhT2hRWHdtTS9zamhmUm9CTFQiLCJtYWMiOiIyY2Y3MWY0ZDRkZjhjYjU2NWMyZTk2YmNmOTBmNDU4ODg0MWRlNzdjYjcxZDgyM2VhOWI3ZjcwZDRhNWVmZDQzIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:08:36 GMT; Max-Age=7200; path=/; httponlymilitary_embedded_systems_session=eyJpdiI6IllSM3dqM1c0TnR3aTYwaHNBSXZvV2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiNUlNczIxck5qY0hTeWlKcDFvbHFWb2xWTTJYcys4RFNCT2ZFV29rWXh5dkxBMWhwcitkbX" ] "Set-Cookie" => array:2 [ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6Im5OcC9DRkhkMStmWVlIcXBmY1Btd2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWmd5WllES2dIUGRXVWd3N3VqRS9sMVdmeTJ5aHJ4T2I5aGp5ZXFIRS9aRnlYQmhxbXV4V2hyaHJiR1JnSnhkSzhUd3o4RTNyZmc2NFJzekk4MjErQkpSZFZleE02V2RFNEZqdnVhaTd0RWxpejNSSzVRWXhKUlNWcHgwakJKbjAiLCJtYWMiOiI2YmQxOGM3ZDhkNGY3ZmVkNmY2NDgzMDM1ZDEyYTZjYjExOTczMDNlNGQ5NTI5YTBhNzVmMmMxZjE1YTFmZTNmIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 19-Mar-2025 07:08:36 GMT; path=/XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6Im5OcC9DRkhkMStmWVlIcXBmY1Btd2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWmd5WllES2dIUGRXVWd3N3VqRS9sMVdmeTJ5aHJ4T2I5aGp5ZXFIRS9aRnlYQmhxbXV4V2hyaHJiR1JnSnhkSzhUd3o4R" 1 => "military_embedded_systems_session=eyJpdiI6IllSM3dqM1c0TnR3aTYwaHNBSXZvV2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiNUlNczIxck5qY0hTeWlKcDFvbHFWb2xWTTJYcys4RFNCT2ZFV29rWXh5dkxBMWhwcitkbXpIZFNESHRRTkVYeTVCbml4dytDOS9PK3NIalVvNy8xaU41bmp2Q0dyaktoVEVjaDNUdUVHM2RsL1ZhT2hRWHdtTS9zamhmUm9CTFQiLCJtYWMiOiIyY2Y3MWY0ZDRkZjhjYjU2NWMyZTk2YmNmOTBmNDU4ODg0MWRlNzdjYjcxZDgyM2VhOWI3ZjcwZDRhNWVmZDQzIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Wed, 19-Mar-2025 07:08:36 GMT; path=/; httponlymilitary_embedded_systems_session=eyJpdiI6IllSM3dqM1c0TnR3aTYwaHNBSXZvV2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiNUlNczIxck5qY0hTeWlKcDFvbHFWb2xWTTJYcys4RFNCT2ZFV29rWXh5dkxBMWhwcitkbX" ] ]
          session_attributes
          0 of 0
          array:4 [ "_token" => "stMBZNVO6ZXpoCGOj2j804EtqonaoWXmyo7SBSCe" "_previous" => array:1 [ "url" => "https://dev007.militaryembedded.com/avionics/computers/roundup-f-22-innocent-victim-ready-the-axe" ] "_flash" => array:2 [ "old" => [] "new" => [] ] "PHPDEBUGBAR_STACK_DATA" => [] ]