3.23.2011

Clearly we will need to start a bigger war soon

In Libya Intervention, No Use for the United States’ Costly, Much-Touted F-22 Fighter Jet - ProPublica

As part of an allied military intervention in Libya, the United States has launched a number of air strikes targeting Qaddafi’s ground forces and air defense centers, but one rather expensive aircraft is sitting out the action: the Air Force’s much-touted F-22 fighter jet, produced by Lockheed Martin....

Had the F-22 been used, Libya would’ve been its first taste of combat. The $150-million aircraft has also sat idle in the United States’ war on terror, having “not performed a single mission [4]” in either the Iraq or Afghanistan wars.

 

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