Hurricane Michael may have damaged expensive F-22 fighter jets

Published October 12, 2018 5:22pm ET



Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jets worth at least $143 million apiece may have been damaged in onslaught of Hurricane Michael on the Florida panhandle.

A squadron of the stealthy aircraft is based at Tyndall Air Force Base, which suffered catastrophic damage in the Category 4 storm on Wednesday. The Air Force confirmed Friday that not all of the aircraft at the base were evacuated beforehand.

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