![]() ![]() “The significance has to do with long-term support for the warfighter. ![]() Lockheed has already delivered 113 Raptors. Ordering four additional Raptors has been proposed, but that would extend production only by about two months. If the Department of Defense does not make any new orders, the 183rd and final Raptor will roll off an assembly line in Marietta, Ga., in 2011. Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Corp., the aircraft’s prime contractor, used the simulator as part of a larger effort to create public awareness they hope will lead to new orders for the stealthy aircraft used by the Air Force. ![]() In a room inside one of Raytheon Co.’s buildings, politicians, their representatives and members of the media toyed with a flight simulator for the F-22 Raptor fighter-bomber. Few people noticed the chaotic bombing raids Tuesday in El Segundo – a feat carried out, literally, by rank amateurs.
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