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Thursday, December 11, 2008

US Air Force seeks about 60 more F-22 fighters

The U.S. Air Force is seeking to buy about 60 more top-of-the-line Lockheed Martin Corp F-22 fighter jets, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Wednesday, despite Pentagon efforts to end the program.

Adm. Mike Mullen said the Air Force chief of staff, Gen. Norton Schwartz, had talked about buying "60 or so" more of the radar-evading "Raptors" beyond the 183 now on order, which would bring the total to 243.

That is far less than the 750 the Air Force once planned to buy and well below the 381 the Air Force more recently has said it needs to guarantee air supremacy. But it is still more than the current administration's cap of 183 in production.

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