1, the chair declares the house when members return, well have live coverage here on cspan. This morning on capitol hill, Michael Whitaker testified for his nomination to head the federal aviation administration. Hes appearing this morning ahead of the commerce, science and transportation committee. Well take you live there now on cspan. Sen. Cantwell each day they help keep americans moving safely. 25,000 u. S. Airline flights carrying 2. 5 million passengers across the country and around the world. Today, you will come before the committee with more than 30 years of diverse experience in aviation, including executive leadership in the private sector and three years serving as f. A. A. Deputy administrator. He led the f. A. A. s modernization of the National Air Space system known shorthand as nextgen, and i hope he will be able to illuminate today the progress that weve made, important milestones that weve achieved and what we need to do to get it finally implemented. Mr. Whitaker wi
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Versatile, its just an attack plane, its not capable of carrying amram missiles and doing any aerial combat, yes, it doesnt have a radar station, that is, its not even capable of detecting an enemy plane at a Long Distance to escape in time, its not fast, and so if we get these planes, they will be loss of both our resources, efforts, money, because we will still have to operate them, yes, and the flight crew, that is, those who write about the fact that we need such planes, well, let them read a little, read something about this plane and about the conditions of its use, well, i will say one phrase that the americans believed that they had about 500 such aircraft there during the cold war, and they believed that they would be enough for two weeks of hostilities. Mr. Valery, thank you very much for these explanations about both the a10 and the f16. Let me remind you that it was valery romanenko, the estimable expert, leading researcher of the state aviation museum, next we will talk ab
When we talk about the list of weapons, you mentioned airtoair missiles, but our partners talked about the fact that longrange means of impression will be transferred, which can be used for strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation, about what means of impression we can discuss whether we will meet accordingly. Of the United States to avoid such hostilities against the Russian Federation . Well, here is the question, its interesting, so here, if we get permission only for harm missiles, yes, thats one thing, but if we get jasm missiles, then we can destroy russian rears at a great depth, because the latest models jasm missiles, they have a range of up to. 900 km, that is, in fact, we will be able, lets say, to destroy russian ships right in the harbors, but they wont even need to catch them at sea, or, well, that in crimea, yes, there are none here at all, there will be no obstacles, because crimea is allowed, any nato resources that we receive, we can harvest in crimea, but i
Understand, we will get one, maximum, one aircraft brigade, thats 22 squadrons, 24 aircraft, and the russians can oppose us with up to 500 aircraft of new models, that is, in terms of the number, we also have to somehow increase the number of these aircraft, because there will be losses, well, of course, war is war, there will be losses of aircraft , the loss of pilots, in relation to the total number, well, it is necessary look, assess the level of aircraft losses after a certain period of at least a few months of combat use of these aircraft, but for now i believe that it is necessary to feed as many pilots as possible, if there is such a possibility, if the new sets are from the Kharkiv Institute of the air force, or maybe the university of the air force, yes , you can send as much as possible. Our boys in order to train not only pilots, but also ground personnel, and we must have a supply of pilots, because planes, you see, we were promised up to 60 planes, plus belgium will also b