Government Morons…The Lockheed F-22 Rapter Fighter Jet Program

Posted By on August 7, 2011

The F-22 Raptor fighter jet is a sleek, diamond-winged fighter conceived during the Cold War in the early 1980’s to combat a new generation of Soviet fighter jets. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Soviet fighters that the U.S. military planners had feared never moved beyond development stage and none were ever built.

So the United States ended up with a fleet of 158 Lockheed F-22 Raptor fighter jet planes, with an expected cost of $139 million each…but nope, they ended up costing $412 million each, and none, that’s right, none have never entered combat.  Say what?  Yep.  They’re the most expensive fighter jets ever built, but the F-22 Raptor’s never have worked even one day of combat.  Not one day! 

Believe it or not, it gets worse…even the government will have a hard time topping this.  The plane takes about 3,000 people to maintain, and the Air Force has calculated that for every hour in the air, the F-22 Raptor spends 45 hours undergoing maintenance.

The F-22s amount to about $65 billion just sitting on the tarmac.  “For all that gigantic cost, you have a system you can’t even use,” said Winslow T. Wheeler, a defense budget specialist and frequent Pentagon critic at the Center for Defense Information. “It’s a fundamental explanation on how the country has gotten itself in the financial mess that it’s in today.”

F-22 engines have thrust-vectoring nozzles that can move up and down, making the plane exceptionally agile. It can reach supersonic speeds without using afterburners, enabling the plane to fly faster and farther. It’s also packed with cutting-edge radar and sensors, allowing the pilot to identify, track and shoot an aircraft before the enemy pilot can detect the F-22.

Two decades ago, the U.S. government planned to buy 648 of the fighters for $139 million apiece; the cost has almost tripled since then to $412 million, the Government Accountability Office said.

Purchases finally ended with 188 planes.  The $273 million cost over run per plane translates into $51.3 billion in lost buying power for the defense department. 

And they wonder why we call them government morons!

Information pertaining to this article are from: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fighter-jets-grounded-20110807,0,5483241.story

 

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