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To: longnshort who wrote (32328)	10/27/2004 2:23:52 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) of 173976

TOYS FOR THE BOYS TO FIGHT THE NO LONGER EXISTING WAR...DO THE MATH: $260 mil per copy times 277 purchased = $72.020 BILLION NOT SPENT ON EDUCATION, HEALTH CARE, ENVIRONMENT, ANYTHING AT ALL THAT WOULD BENEFIT THE PEOPLE WHO WILL PAY FOR IT.......HEY I THOUGHT "RAPTOR" WAS AN ENRON TM FOR ONE OF ITS SCAMS.....SO EXACTLY WHO DOES THIS BENEFIT? US rolls out most expensive jet By David Bamford BBC Defence and Security correspondent The first of a fleet of the world's most expensive fighter jet, the FA-22 Raptor, is being commissioned into the United States Air Force. The US military has ordered 277 planes, the first of which was due to roll out onto the tarmac at its manufacturing base in Georgia on Wednesday. It is to join a fighter squadron based close to the capital, Washington DC. The FA-22 stealth fighter can fly at 1500 km/h and still remain undetected by radar. It fires precisely targeted smart bombs and can engage hostile aircraft far beyond the pilot's vision. That is the impressive part of the story. Irrelevant? The other part is that, at a cost of about $260m (£142m) each, the Raptor is designed to fight a potential Soviet enemy that no longer exists, and a Third World War that - if it ever happens - will be very different from what could have been imagined in 1981. Some years ago there was a serious attempt in the Congress to scrap the whole project, especially as the revised cost exceeded four times the original estimate. It failed largely because of pressure from military contractors and labour unions in states that will directly benefit from this multi-billion dollar programme. The introduction of the new fighter jet comes in the same week that its manufacturer, Lockheed-Martin, announced a 40% rise in profits as it processes orders for its next generation of fighter aircraft, the F-35. Story from BBC NEWS: news.bbc.co.uk Published: 2004/10/27 17:20:27 GMT

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