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Defense Chief Restricts Flights Of Stealth Fighter That's Been Choking Pilots

Wired | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 05.16.2012

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For five years, America’s most expensive fighter jets have been poisoning their pilots and crew. On Tuesday, the Defense Secretary finally stepped i...

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Is The Air Force's F-22 Fighter Jet Making Pilots Sick?

Posted 05.07.2012

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Two elite Air Force pilots are seeking protection under the federal whistleblower law for revealing safety problems on the F-22 Raptor, and refusing t...

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The F-22: Final Delivery for a Flying Disaster

William Hartung | Posted 05.03.2012

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Wednesday Lockheed Martin delivered the last of 187 F-22 Raptor fighter jets to the U.S. Air Force. The roll out prompted executives to describe the plane as "the baddest bird on the planet" and "an icon of American power." The facts suggest otherwise.

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The 4,500th Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon: A Source of Pride for the Aerospace Industry and America

Dorian de Wind | Posted 04.03.2012

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I have written plenty about the sad demise of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter program and about the trials and tribulations of the F-35 Joint ...

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Will the $55 billion bomber program fly?

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.26.2012

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By David Axe, iWatch NewsWhen the Obama administration dispatched three B-2 bombers from a Missouri air base on March 19 last year to cross the ocea...

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Arms Industry: Trumped Up Jobs Claims, Pumped Up Profits

William Hartung | Posted 01.02.2012

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The ultimate form of mismanagement involves a failure to set priorities. The Pentagon needs to pare back its missions to those that are essential for defending the country.

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Sukhoi T-50: Russia Tests 5th-Generation Stealth Fighter Jet

AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOSCOW — Russia's first stealth fighter intended to match the latest U.S. design made its maiden flight Friday, boosting the country's efforts t...

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The Pentagon Kluge That Refuses to Die

Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011

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After a long fight, Gates and President Obama ultimately prevailed this summer in ending further F-22 production. Game over. Right? Anyone who thinks so doesn't appreciate the staying power of Congress' porkers.

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Senate Beats Back Military-Industrial Complex In Historic Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama won a major victory in the Senate Tuesday in a dogfight that has major, long-term implications for his agenda. The Senate, by a vote ...

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Defense Contractors Lobby For More F-22s, Obama Threatens Veto

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

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The F-22 stealth fighter jets may no longer be needed, but its manufacturers, Lockheed Martin and Boeing, are lobbying aggressively to keep them in th...

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Over $44,000 an Hour to Fly: Putting the F-22 in Perspective

Brandon Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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That we would spend as much money in an hour ($44,300) flying a nearly useless fighter jet as we do paying critical personnel to fight the war on the ground is obscene.

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Jon Soltz, Phil Gingrey Debate Funding For New Line Of Fighter Jets, The F-22 Raptor (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jon Soltz, Chairman of VoteVets.org and a frequent HuffPost blogger, faced off against Georgia Congressman Phil Gingrey (R) over funding for the extre...

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Will Congress Put Useless Fighter Jets Above America?

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Congress is about to throw $369 million (on a down-payment of $2 billion) for a dozen F-22 fighter jets that even the Pentagon doesn't want.

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Obama Defense Contractor Battle Only Just Begun: AP

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has chalked up a quick victory in its drive to kill an expensive jet fighter better suited for the Cold Wa...

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Don't Kid Yourself -- The F-22 Lives

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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The defense budget is being cut in the sense that it's going up. The F-22 has been killed in sense that we've appropriated all the money we need to keep building them until we have to think about it again. The good news is that we're calling bad news good news.

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Save the Pitiful F-22

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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The F-22 Raptor is a plane designed in the early 90s to fight the planes the Soviet Union didn't build in the late 80s. The reason we've never used the Raptor in Iraq is it doesn't work in places where there are wars.

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