Dallas Business Journal
Published: 01-22-09
Boeing responsible for making aircraft’s wings & fuselage
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn R-TX has sent a letter to President-elect Barack Obama urging the new administration to support continued production of the F-22 Raptor fighter jet an aircraft created by Lockheed Martin that currently supports thousands of jobs including positions at Lockheed’s facility’s in Fort Worth Cornyn said.
The product line supports not only Lockheed Martin jobs but also jobs at Boeing which is responsible for making the aircraft’s wings and fuselage.
In a letter to Obama Cornyn wrote: “The F-22 is optimized to achieve the air dominance necessary to protect our joint fighting forces in any future conflict. However a fleet of 183 aircraft the current program of record is insufficient to meet potential threats.”
“Further we must not overlook the fact that our potential adversaries are increasing their air combat capabilities both in terms of technology and numbers of aircraft. Several have announced that they are developing stealthy twin-engine high-altitude fifth-generation fighters that will reach production within the next five to 10 years Cornyn added.
Additionally sophisticated and highly lethal air defense systems such as the SA-20 and S-300/400 are proliferating worldwide resulting in the possible requirement to achieve air dominance in multiple theaters simultaneously” he wrote.
