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Pentagon Says Billions Needed To Make First 100 F-22s ‘Fully Capable’

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Friday, November 21st, 2008

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By Marina Malenic The Air Force will have to spend approximately $8 billion to upgrade the 100 "lesser models" in its F-22 Raptor fleet, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer said yesterday. John Young, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, told the Defense Writers Group the Air Force has laid out a "two-tiered structure where some of the earlier jets were not fully capable jets" with "something like 100 jets being lesser models." Young said the Pentagon's proposed…

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