Air Force estimates additional F-22s would cost $50 billion

By Courtney Albon / June 21, 2017 at 4:09 PM
The Air Force estimates it would cost about $50 billion to buy 194 additional F-22s and told Congress earlier this month in a classified report it has no plans to re-start the production line. Congress requested the report in the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. Service leaders have claimed a re-start doesn't make economic sense and, according to an unclassified summary released June 21, the Air Force's recent analysis appears to support those claims. "The report estimated it...

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