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On the recordSeptember 23, 2009
a plane that we have been building all these years, its mission-capable rate is down around 50 percent, where we spend, I think, about $40,000 per flight hour for the aircraft that has never flown a single mission in Iraq or Afghanistan, maybe that is not an airplane we should continue to build several hundred more.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper questions the continued production of the F-22 fighter due to poor performance metrics.

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