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Is the F/A-22 Raptor programme cost going to be lowered?

Washington, USA - Pentagon could reduce the orders from 277 to 160 due to cost experienced in particular during the operations in Iraq

The United States’ Department of Defence would intend to lower the financial effort related to the F/A-22 Raptor programme. Despite no clear comment about the recent accident which involved a fighter of this type (see for details AVIONEWS) was made by Pentagon, it seems that some spokesmen would have admitted that Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, would be thinking about the need to downsize a...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 110913
Rome, Italy, 12/29/2004 13:53
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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