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Raptor: the dream comes true

Washington, USA - Pentagon's go-ahead for the mass production of the new stealth fighter whose first airframes will be combat ready even at the end of 2005

The Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor stops representing an "X" aircraft and a weapon system in doubt for the future. Pentagon has recently provided its go-ahead for its mass production in order to endow US Air Force with a certain number of airplanes of this type within some years. Despite it is probably too soon to say how many Raptors are going to equip the USAF’s units with certainty, one can however b...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 119126
Rome, Italy, 04/21/2005 17:08
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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