F-35 fighter flies into trouble in Congress
The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee has a plan that slows down the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
Lockheed Martin will have to delay production beyond 2007 of the first F-35s and the committee cut $1.2 billion from the $4 billion-plus requested for the program in fiscal 2007 to force more pre-production testing.
The House of Representatives Armed Services Committee voted this week to fund fully the first five and only enough to buy five more in 2008, down from 16 sought by the Pentagon.
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