Raptor to Enter Combat in 2005, General Says
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An Air Force general said he expected the F/A-22 Raptor to join combat operations by the end of next year, despite this week’s crash of one of the next-generation stealth fighter jets.
“We’re going to keep right on going,” said Maj. Gen. Stephen M. Goldfein, the Air Warfare Center commander at Nellis Air Force Base, where the approximately $133-million plane crashed and burned on a runway shortly after takeoff Monday.
The Raptors, considered the Air Force’s premier fighter, are in operational trials.
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