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Well, not exactly, but the contractors, trade unions, and friendly members of Congress that wanted to keep producing F-22s beyond the 187 President Obama and Defense Secretary Gates wanted lost in a bi-partisan Senate vote 58 to 40, two shy of votes needed. It is a weapon system with no enemy and horrendously costly. This will make the much-less-expensive F-35 (Joint Strike Fighter) the military’s workhorse. Thousands of the fighters are to be produced for all services and many allies.
