Air Force to Buy More Lockheed F/A-22s
From Reuters
The U.S. Air Force has agreed to buy 22 more F/A-22 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin Corp. for less than $110 million a plane, Air Force acquisition chief Marvin Sambur said.
Sambur said the terms agreed upon by the Air Force and Lockheed were “exactly on the target price curve” and would allow the Air Force to buy a total of 277 -- and possibly more -- F/A-22s by 2013.
He confirmed that top Pentagon officials approved the start of operational testing of the F/A-22 at the end of April after the Air Force and Lockheed showed progress in improving the stability of the plane’s avionics.
Lockheed officials declined to comment.
