F-117 Fleet Faces Early Retirement

President Bush wants to retire the F-117 stealth fighters, sending most to the boneyard over the next year, rather than by 2011. The fighters, which cost about $45 million each, were a revolution in technology when they were unveiled in 1988 following a classified development program. Their radar...

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