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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Former Lockheed Martin engineer claims company used "defective" stealth coatings on F-22 Raptor jets

F-22 RaptorA former engineer for defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. claims in a federal whistleblower lawsuit that the company knowingly used "defective" stealth coatings when building its F-22 Raptor stealth jets.

Darrol Olsen, a stealth engineer who was fired by Lockheed in 1999, claims Lockheed "falsely certified" the coatings between September 1995 and June 1999, saying they had passed stealth tests and concealing results that showed otherwise.

Olsen said in the lawsuit he was told to "stay out of it" when he complained to his superiors.

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