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Old 12-01-2009, 01:31 PM
InfiniteStates InfiniteStates is offline
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Originally Posted by Lexandro View Post
Its expense that stop both on a single airframe. OVT can be used with stealth designs, its just extremely expensive to have both. The F22 when it was in pre-development (IE drawing board) was intended to have full 360 degree thrust vectoring but the sheer cost of development and contruction meant that they have to reduce the vectoring ability.
That's OK - the American tax payer has deep pockets
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