Trying to Go B-1 With the F-22

Lockheed and the USAF have reached an agreement to preserve the F-22 production tooling for future use.

The claim is that this is about, "will be able to repair and modernise the service's aircraft, or manufacture new Raptors." (Emphasis mine)

Make no bones about this: This is not about SLEPPing the airframes or upgrades, they don't need the tooling for this.

They are hoping for a President, SecDef, and Congress will at some point change policy, as Reagan did with the B-1, and this is the sort of insubordinate crap that really needs to be addressed.

In a perfect world, Obama would find out who is behind this, fire them, and take the tooling and sell it for scrap.

In this world, we'll see the pigs at the trough every year or so for the next decade in an attempt to restart the program.