Defense Secretary Robert Gates has announced that the Pentagon will not order any more of the Marietta build F-22 fighter jets.
The F-22 Raptor fighter jet, assembled in Cobb County by 2,000 workers, will not be an ongoing enterprise for Lockheed Martin Corp., the Pentagon said Monday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the radar-evading supersonic jet would not go beyond the 187 already planned. Lockheed has built 140 so far.
The aircraft has had a hard time being justified as a tool to fight “the next war”, in a world where unmanned drones seemed destined to fill the skies. Today’s announcement seems to indicate that the plane was also not worthy of representing a “jobs program”, and also indicates that Georgia is currently without a Sam Nunn or even Newt Gingrich to provide cover.
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Goldwater Conservative,
Your arguments rebut themselves more than I ever could. I am not sure whether you are sincere or just throwing feces against the blog wall to see what sticks and who it stirs up.
I agree on the F-22 – it is very impractical from the point of view of China and Russia.
Keep up the good work.
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