U.S. Senate votes to stop production of F-22 jet

When they shut down the F22 production line there goes another couple hundred of thousand high paying jobs.

Why limit to 187 new fighters? There is no money in the US Treasury and the government is going to buy 187 of them anyway - just go ahead and contract for the full 380 that the planes supporters want.

This is like a jobless broke person saying I`ve decided not to buy the Hummer. This nation is insolvent.

two of them suckers already crashed. that's a half billion down the drain already. could have bought two dozen F-15s for that kind of money. furthermore, not one peep about how it happened.

I particularly liked the way it started off as being "very low visibility", then became "low visibily" as it neared production, then finally "if you squint a bit you might miss it". I suspect this is one reason why they changed their minds about selling it to the countries that helped fund the F22's development... Anyway, no more F22.

A very sensible move.

This aircraft was designed over a quarter of a century ago to fight a Soviet-era fighter that still has not come off the production line.

Plus, let's not forget that a grand total of zero of these machines has been used in Iraq or Afghanistan.

A very good move by President Obama and notably supported by Sen. John McCain.