Tom Carper said "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." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

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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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Editor's note · Context

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

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