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Article: AIR FORCE CONSIDERS SPEEDING C-130J BUY TO CONTROL F-22 COST By Vago Muradian.
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- October 23, 1998
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The Air Force leadership is debating whether to start buying C- 130J transports starting in 2000 instead of 2004 to that ensure production of the Lockheed Martin [LMT] aircraft remains uninterrupted to avoid increasing costs for the F-22 fighter, government officials and sources said.
The link between the large four-engine C-130J and the stealthy twin-engine F-22 is that both are assembled at Lockheed Martin's massive facility in Marietta, Ga.
While production of the F-22 is assured because the effort is the Air Force's top modernization priority--the service plans to buy 339 of the sophisticated aircraft under a program valued at more than $40 billion, ...