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Lockheed Martin

Acquired

CHAPTER

The End of the F-22 Program

The F-22, much like the SR-71, there's not much we can complain about with the plane. The final down from 750 to 339 is 187 planes delivered. Each plane ends up costing $360 million if you amortize all the R&D against the very few airplanes that they ended up making. They took all of the stealth lessons from the F-117 and put it into a fast, air-dominating airplane.

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