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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Despite $65B price, F22 jets can't handle war

F-22 RaptorIt's the most expensive fighter jet ever built. Yet the F22 Raptor has never seen a day of combat, and its future is clouded by a government safety investigation that grounded the jet.

The fleet of 158 F22s has been sidelined since May 3, following more than a dozen incidents in which oxygen was cut off to pilots, making them woozy. The malfunction is suspected of contributing to at least one fatal accident.

At an estimated cost of $412 million each, the F22s amount to about $65 billion sitting on the tarmac. The grounding is the latest chapter for a problem-plagued aircraft whose need was questioned before its first test flight.

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