User:Rabbit 6

"If Kim Basinger was a plane, this is what she'd be."

- Tom Clancy, on the F-22 Raptor

My online handle is Rabbit 6 and I am a contributor to this wiki, among others. I have been a fan of Ace Combat since July of 2011 and completed playthroughs of all the games in the PS2 era. I also have a keen interest in seeing the translation for the Japanese version of Electrosphere finished, so I can play that too.

Biography
Although born in New York, I've moved abroad for most of my life as part of my parents' work; they are in the United Nations and get assigned to exotic locales on a semi-regular basis, depending on what positions they get "promoted" into. For the longest time I suffered from a disconnect regarding who I was and what I wanted to do in life but eventually decided to become a lawyer which I am now pursuing. I am interested in returning to the United States to take the bar exam and practice, possibly with the Armed Forces Judge Advocate General's Corp (any of the branches is fine with me, though I am sort of interested in the Air Force) or one of the major aerospace and defence companies. I find this ironic, considering that in my youth I wanted nothing to do with the military. This was around the time we were in Iraq for a second go.

Outside of video games, my main interests are reading, writing and building/painting scale models. Although it may not look like it, I am a huge fan of the F/A-22 Raptor and belong to the Carlo Kopp school of thought regarding the state of our Air Force: It makes me sad to see the US like this, especially when we're supposed to be in the middle of a recession, but when I see Lockheed sticking to the $65 million price tag for the F-35 it makes me sad. I really want to be wrong but I haven't seen any convincing counter-arguments.
 * 1) In the not-too-distant future, the proliferation of weapons technology from countries like China and Russia means that our future "interventions" will be opposed by Super Flankers and the like.
 * 2) The Joint Strike Fighter, although cool as hell, may not be adequate to go head-to-head with Su-35 and Su-35BM, and definitely not against the PAK-FA and J-20.
 * 3) Legacy fighters will not be a substitute for the F-35 and the F-35 will be a poor substitute for the F/A-22 in most roles.
 * 4) The F-35 has already exceeded, in R&D and flyaway costs, the F/A-22.
 * 5) If we want to go around playing Celestial Being (cf. Gundam 00) in the future we might as well do it well. We've been fine so far because the worst we've faced are Mirages and Cold War-era MiGs, but if we come up against 4++ Generation fighters with too few F/A-22's and F-35's we may as well bend over.