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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Lockheed gets $1 billion US deal for F-22 fighters

F-22 RaptorLockheed Martin Corp. has won a contract worth $1 billion to build 23 more F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft plus one test aircraft, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

The order, for the sixth production batch of the radar-evading fighters, is to be wrapped up by February 2010, the Pentagon said in its daily contract summary.

A total of 131 Raptors are now under contract, with 83 already delivered to the Air Force, said Joseph Quimby, Lockheed's spokesman for the F-22 program.

The F-22 is built by Lockheed in partnership with Boeing Co. and Pratt & Whitney, a United Technologies Corp. unit that makes the engines.

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