NRC backs DOD waiver for full-scale F-22 survivability tests

Congress should waive "impractical" and expensive full-up, full-scale live fire tests on the U.S. Air Force's F-22 and instead conduct an alternative survivability program that would test components and subsystems of the new fighter, the National Research Council said in a report released yesterday...

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