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Paper Urges Cutting Zumwalt Destroyers, F-22s And F-35s, Freezing New Programs

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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

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By Dave Ahearn New and experimental defense hardware programs should be banned for the next two years, a new paper recommends. Further, the Navy should kill the DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers procurement program (General Dynamics [GD] and Northrop Grumman [NOC]) after the first three are built because they're expensive, while the Air Force should build just 203 F-22 Raptor strike fighter aircraft (Lockheed Martin [LMT]) instead of the 381 the Air Force requested, according to a paper from the Center for…

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