By peaceful transition of power, the term applies to the “parties” (small “p”) involved, ie the POTUS and POTUS-elect.

Bush v1 was gracious to Clinton v1, who was gracious to Bush v2, who was gracious to Obama, etc. You did not see them bad mouthing the POTUS-elect, the peopel who elected him, etc.

While there has been sporadic violence, you will not see organized, widespread violence from the loosing Party (big “P”).

There will always be butt-hurt sore-losers, that cannot be helped.

Would a Hellfire sized missile be adequate?

Hellfire & CUDA are relatively the same size, about 6/7 inches in diameter and 6ft long.

Why are you quoting old data that does not include everything… like I said already.

Funny how when the F-18 is part of an FMS sale the cost goes WAY up but the F-35 does not…..

Um… take a look at the full export contract price for Rafale (India, Egypt, or Qatar) vs the SK F-35 deal…. the Rafale was more expensive in every one of them.

Second, the JSF seems unlikely to provide a platform that has a hardware and software architecture that would allow the easy addition of any new technologies.

um… Virtural Machine & C# middleware based avionics hosted on an open, COTS architecture interconnected with optical networks… it does not get any easier than that.

On top of that add an established API & UAI weapons interface.

Nobody has said “one is as safe as two” only “the benefit of two over one is negligible and is outweighed buy the increase in procurement/development/maint costs and loss of range.”

Sorry to burst your bubble but “safety” is not the number one rule. Fighters, like all other projects, are a balance of requirements.

If you wanna put the safety of your crews first, you choose a multi engine aircraft.

You can use the same argument with “If you want to put the survivability of your crew first, you buy a fighter with the best SA and lowest RCS”.

Let’s match it up… how many pilots since 1990 were shot down vs had an engine failure that caused them to eject? How many died as a result?

Not saying that it’s not true… but why tweet it without a source?