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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Obstacles In Making Case For More F-22 Fighters

F-22 RaptorOn April 6, when Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that the Pentagon would stop making F-22 fighter jets, scores in Congress thundered to uphold the ultra-expensive aircraft as a linchpin of the national defense and a cornerstone of economies in Texas, Georgia, Connecticut and many other states.

Yet within weeks, two institutions with a deep interest in the F-22 -- its builder, Lockheed Martin Corp., and its user, the Air Force -- said that they could tolerate the plan to stop production after the 187th plane, just four more than now on order.

Gates has stood firm against the aircraft, for which Pratt & Whitney of East Hartford makes the engines: President Barack Obama's fiscal 2010 budget, submitted to Congress this month, includes no money for new F-22s.

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