{"id":196758,"date":"2008-03-26T23:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T04:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/26\/stealth-costs-of-f-22-exceed-estimate\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T23:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T04:18:00","slug":"stealth-costs-of-f-22-exceed-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/26\/stealth-costs-of-f-22-exceed-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth Costs of F-22 Exceed Estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Sweetman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A923aa8c0-db8c-4dee-acee-63bb1b708fec\">notices a USAF document touting improvements in the cost and maintainability of stealth operations for the F-22<\/a>, and notes that they have still not achieved what was promised about 8 years ago, even with the improvements.<\/p>\n<p>While the Air Force is hailing efficiency gains, it appears that maintaining the LO capabilities of the Raptor are a crushing burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Sweetman notices a USAF document touting improvements in the cost and maintainability of stealth operations for the F-22, and notes that they have still not achieved what was promised about 8 years ago, even with the improvements. While the Air Force is hailing efficiency gains, it appears that maintaining the LO capabilities of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1038,1008,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-budget","category-defense-procurement","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}