According to various news reports, Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee, may be working to prolong the F-22 production line, including enabling a potential export version. According to a New York Times report, F-22 supporters \u00ab\u00a0took heart\u00a0\u00bb when Inouye removed production line shutdown dollars from the 2009 defense supplemental last month. Reuters news service has reported that Inouye’s committee might add language to the Fiscal 2010 defense spending bill that would require the Pentagon to study the viability of creating an export version. No doubt there is heightened interest with North Korea’s recent antics have stoked the fires. According to the Reuter’s report, Japan remains interested in the advanced stealth fighter and is willing to shoulder the cost burden of modifying the F-22 for export. Lawmakers would have to agree to overturn the ban on exports under the Obey amendment. Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently allegedly told the Japanese that the F-22 was not for sale and that they should set their sights on the F-35 instead. However, Michele Flournoy, who heads the Pentagon’s policy shop, said the topic of F-22 exports to close allies would be discussed during the Quadrennial Defense Review.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tComme on dit, la situation est compliqu\u00e9e, et elle ne cesse de se compliquer avec l’empilement continuel des mauvaises nouvelles concernant le programme JSF, auquel le sort du F-22 est li\u00e9. (Toute mauvaise nouvelle concernant le programme JSF est un argument de plus pour ne pas interrompre le programme F-22, pour ne pas laisser les USA sans un programme actif d’avion dit de la cinqui\u00e8me g\u00e9n\u00e9ration.) Pour l’instant, comme nous l’indiquions dans la nouvelle r\u00e9f\u00e9renc\u00e9e ci-dessus, la situation strat\u00e9gique en Asie, et particuli\u00e8rement ces derniers jours avec les agitations nord-cor\u00e9ennes, donnent un cr\u00e9dit particuli\u00e8rement fort aux arguments qui recommandent de transf\u00e9rer des armements de grandes capacit\u00e9s au Japon, c’est-\u00e0-dire, plut\u00f4t du F-22 que du F-35, par ailleurs, ce dernier, le JSF, difficilement disponible avant que le fils ou le petit-fils de Kim Il-sung soit au pouvoir \u00e0 Pyong Yang.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tLe s\u00e9nateur Inouye, dont on voit qu’il est en pointe pour lancer un F-22 d’exportation pour le Japon, est \u00e9videmment particuli\u00e8rement concern\u00e9 par cet aspect des choses. S\u00e9nateur de Hawa\u00ef, il est d’origine japonaise et il est particuli\u00e8rement sensible \u00e0 la situation dans le Pacifique et \u00e0 la situation du Japon. Il semble que les Japonais aient compris cela, les malins, et qu’ils aient \u00e9tabli des liens avec lui pour coordonner leur nouvelle offensive en faveur du F-22 d’exportation. Bien entendu, la rencontre de Robert Gates et du ministre japonais de la d\u00e9fense le 1er mai, au cours de laquelle Gates fit l’article pour le JSF, contre le F-22, a \u00e9galement jou\u00e9 son r\u00f4le, en sens inverse, en poussant les Japonais \u00e0 avertir Inouye de l’urgence de la situation, pour sauver le F-22.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 3 juin 2009 \u00e0 12H51<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Divers articles, ces derniers jours, donnent des indications sur une nouvelle tendance qu’on trouve dans l’air du temps washingtonien: la r\u00e9surrection d’une possibilit\u00e9 de tourner le F-22 vers l’exportation, et donc de prolonger la s\u00e9rie que l’USAF et Robert Gates voudraient voir termin\u00e9e. Il s’agit notamment d’un article de Reuters, du 1er juin 2009, d’une… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3299,2651,249,3984,8376,4662,250,3349],"class_list":["post-70806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-coree","tag-du","tag-f-22","tag-gates","tag-inouye","tag-japon","tag-jsf","tag-nord"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}