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Lockheed Won’t Fight End Of F-22 Program -- AJC
Sen. Saxby Chambliss says aircraft’s future doesn’t look bright.
The future of the F-22 fighter jet program based at Lockheed Martin’s plant in Marietta took another major nosedive Tuesday, after the company said it will accept the Pentagon’s plans to end the program.
Many lawmakers — led by those from Georgia — blasted the idea of cutting a program that employs 25,000 people nationwide in the middle of a recession.
On Tuesday, the F-22’s chief backer in Congress, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), said he wasn’t giving up continuing the program just yet but acknowledged the program’s future doesn’t look bright.
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