After weeks of indecision, the Pentagon has decided to go forward with a key round of tests on the troubled F/A-22 stealth fighter, Reuters reports.
“The testing begins a month later than recently planned (in April), but the stealthy, next-generation fighter program — currently valued at more the $70 billion — could still be on track for a December review on whether to proceed to full production levels,” the wire service says.
Critics in Congress and without have blasted the jet for big cost overruns, and for a deisgn better suited to the Cold War than to the fight against terror.
STEALTH FIGHTER TESTS OK’D
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