The Senate Appropriations Committee voted unanimously Thursday to approve an fiscal 2010 Defense spending bill that would allow the Defense Department to develop an export version of the radar-evading F-22 Raptor fighter jet.Now, not so much.
If the line gets restarted, here is what you have to do:
- Replace almost every chip on the plane with one that whose line wasn't shut down in the past 5 years (the US fleet has spent large amounts on building up inventories of these chips prior to shutdown of their lines).
- Rewrite the software for the new chips.
- Rewrite the software so that potential opponents will not be able to get critical information on the functioning of the US F-22 fleet.
- Improve the reliability of the coatings.
- Develop a new sensor suite so that potential opponents will not be able to get critical information on the functioning of the US F-22 fleet.
- Integrate non-US weapons (France & UK mostly) into the airframe.
- Keep the cost per plane at current levels.
- Be able to deliver the plane in less than 5 years.
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