Lockheed gets $7.4B Air Force deal to upgrade F-22

[unhappycamper]

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unhappycamper summary of this article: Uuuuh. These things cost $418 million dollars (delivered) and now we need to pay another $7.4 billion dollars to make them work?

:wtf:

Was this one of Panetta's 'let's save the MIC' new programs?





This is just one of the reasons Lockheed Martin is the Grand Prize Winner in the 2011 MIC-Pigs-At-The-Trough contest.






Lockheed gets $7.4B Air Force deal to upgrade F-22
Nov 18, 7:26 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon says it has awarded defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. a contract worth up to $7.4 billion to upgrade the systems in the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jet.

[backscatter712]

1. Is this to give them waterproof stealth paint, so they can like fly through the rain?

Your tax dollars at work...

[FarCenter]

2. Or maybe this will fix the oxygen system so the pilots don't black out?