Impasse Threatens F-22 Production

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Impasse Threatens F-22 Production
September 05, 2008
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

WASHINGTON - Lockheed Martin's F-22 production line will face serious disruptions, resulting in layoffs in Texas, unless Congress quickly authorizes $523 million toward the purchase of additional F-22s, two Republican senators warned Thursday.

Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and James Inhofe, R-Okla., issued the warning in a letter to the leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee as Congress moves toward approving a defense bill for the 2009 fiscal year, which begins in October.

The senators urged committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz., the committee's senior Republican, to adopt a House recommendation that would authorize $523 million for the advance purchase of parts for 20 additional F-22s in the 2010 fiscal year.

Cornyn and Inhofe, both leading F-22 supporters in Congress, stepped into a dispute between the Pentagon and the Air Force on whether to keep buying the new-generation warplane.

Workers at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth plant make the midfuselage section, the F-22's largest component. The plane is assembled at a Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, Ga. Boeing workers in Seattle make another fuselage section.


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uhc comment: At $355 million a pop, $523 million will buy you exactly 1.47 F-22 Raptors. Give it up boyz, we cannot afford these money pits.

[mrJJ]

1. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme.

John Cornyn, R-Texas is on the November ticket vs Dem. Noriega