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For F-22 -- The Hill
For F-22 -- The Hill
Barack Obama’s administration will have to pay billions of dollars to buy and maintain more F-22 Raptor fighter jets demanded by Congress, according to the Pentagon's current acquisitions chief.
“The airplane is proving very expensive to operate and it’s complex to maintain,” said John Young, who heads the Pentagon’s acquisition arm. The cost of the plane's maintenance “is too high,” he told reporters in the defense writers group on Thursday.
The Pentagon and Congress have been at odds over how many more F-22s the Air Force should buy. Senior lawmakers from both parties on the House Armed Services Committee want the Pentagon to buy more F-22s, but the Pentagon is resisting.
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