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COMMENTS: Jets for Jobs
The F-22 Raptor jet fleet "is as high as hi-tech gets," CBS' David Martin found as he tried out the cockpit simulator for Lockheed Martin's stealth fighter. The Pentagon has spent $262bn so far on the USAF fleet of 183 planes--"$339m for each one"--yet none has seen combat in either Iraq or Afghanistan. If the plane is not being used why is it not being canceled? "Political engineering," was Martin's explanation. Lockheed Martin parcels out contracts so that the production line includes 95,000 workers in 44 states. Martin showed us one example, Arc Technologies, which manufactures radar-proof coating in an old mill town in New England. "What started out as a fighter for the C21st has turned into an economic stimulus package."
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