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JohnR · 07-23-2009, 07:58 AM

F-22 Raptor Jet - waste of money, cold war relic, or vital national defense component?

Originally to be built at over 700 or so units to replacing the near elderly F15 Eagle (1200 something built), the buy was dropped to 400 hundred sumptin, 300 hundred sumptin, then the 187 that will be athe end of the current production run ending in a year or so.

This plane has gotten a LOT of press again lately, been party to a standoff between Congress and the President and Congress and the Secretary of Defense.

So what is it?

07-23-2009, 07:58 AM	#1
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