Just saying we would be taking a step backwards with what we have now and whats in the works. Spend more money on 1 jet to do the job of 10. You make good points w/all those other aircraft, but that was different time. We were still young in the air like everyone else. We were borrowing a lot of stuff from the Brits and old GE scientists. If we were still like that we would have been flying Tornados, and now EF-2000s instead we are " pretty much" a very independant nation when it comes to our war planes now. I am sure these days both aircraft enginers share info to some extent. If it was 1988 and not 2008 I would say yeah we could use some of that fancy "COBRA" stuff, but not now. If we want to make money we can sell whats in the desert still very capable stuff F-4s,F-16A+Cs, F-18As. They may not be Su-27 family and up capable but, still good old work hoarses and we could do simple upgrades to extend the life, systems. Spend a mil or 2 on each plane to make 10,15 mill. I was being sarcastic with my anology.