Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development
by HappyRobot on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:30PM
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Do you have a source on the F-22 variants? I thought that one of the things that locked us into the F-35 was the tear down of the F-22 production line. Can we still make F-22's?
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Re:F-35 Program Cutting Corners to “Complete” Development
by engi_nerd on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:52PM
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We cannot make an F-22 right now. A few years ago, Lockheed Martin was asked how much they thought it would cost to restart F-22 production. The cost was several billion dollars. Plus, the people with the intimate knowledge of how to build an F-22 are dispersed throughout the rest of the industry, retired, or deceased.