Topic: Pentagon Delays Closing Air Force's F-22 Program

Team Infidel

USA Today
December 21, 2007
Pg. 7
The Pentagon has put off a decision on whether to start closing Lockheed Martin's F-22 assembly line in fiscal 2009.
Pentagon Comptroller Tina Jonas in a memo this week told the Air Force to spend $497 million earmarked for "shutdown costs" instead on repairing Boeing F-15s, two-thirds of which are grounded.
Lockheed is under contract to deliver in 2011 the last of the 183 F-22s ordered. The Air Force wants 381, more than twice as many.
The F-22 is the most expensive fighter ever, costing an inflation-adjusted $195 million each, not including research and development.

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