On the recordSeptember 7, 1995
I would challenge GAO, in the year 2015, if they think the F-15, as great a fighter as it is today, will maintain air superiority against the advances in technology that will in fact have come about for our adversaries and potential adversaries... We will not find any takers because, as magnificent an aircraft as the F-15 is, and I have flown in them, it will not be adequate, neither through its air frame nor through its electronic countermeasures, to sustain air superiority into the year 2015. We need the F-22, this country needs the F-22, our friends overseas need the F-22. If we stop or delay production, we will pay more for getting less in the years to come. It makes good economic sense. We need it. Vote for it.
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