Check out this video from Lockheed Martin

[saddletramp]

Watch this video on the F22 and the F35:

http://i.gizmodo.com/5162787/a-look-at-fifth-generation-fighter-planes?autoplay=true

[Bookworm]

They are quite the birds.

Would give my left one just for a ride in the F35 -- That bird is fantastic.

Dave

[ODwife]

From the very first time I saw a fighter jet at a kid, I have wanted a ride in one so badly. If I could save up for a lifetime, that's what I'd pay for. Great video, thanks.

[LadyTrucker]

Pentagon to end F-22 production

In a blow to Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon has decided to end funding of the F-22 fighter jet.

The decision by Defense Secretary Robert Gates will rouse widespread opposition in Congress and is likely to bog down the 2010 budget approval process, with F-22 supporters maneuvering to secure more money.

The Pentagon will fund four of the radar-evading stealth fighters in the upcoming 2009 emergency war-spending request, but those additional aircraft will do little to keep the production line in Marietta, Ga., open beyond 2011. Each F-22 costs about $140 million.

Gates announced the decision at a press conference on the Defense budget on Monday afternoon. He said the recommendations were his own and that he received no guidance from outside the Pentagon. But he did confer with military and civilian leaders at the Defense Department, he said.

Gates said he consulted closely with the president but that he "received no direction or guidance from outside this department on individual program decisions."

No money for the F-22 program will be requested in the fiscal 2010 budget, congressional and industry sources familiar with the budget briefings told The Hill. Gates has been making calls to the chairmen of the congressional defense committees.

The final F-22 of the 183 currently on order will be delivered at the end of 2011. Building another four would keep the line open for only a few months beyond that end date.

Lockheed Martin and its subcontractors, including Boeing, in recent weeks have stepped up their campaign to keep the production line open. They argue that 25,000 people work directly for the 1,000 suppliers of the F-22 in 44 states, and another 70,000 indirectly owe their jobs to this program.

LINK TO ARTICLE...... (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/pentagon-to-end-f-22-production-2009-04-06.html)

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