Late last month I wrote about some of the problems the Air Force has been having with it’s newest stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor. Now David Axe reports that the F-22’s first overseas deployment has been postponed due to a software malfunction.
So I was all set to fly out to Okinawa, Japan, to cover the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor’s first overseas deployment. But then word came that several of the birds had suffered software malfunctions en route to Okinawa from Hawaii. All 12 jets from the Virginia-based 27th Fighter Squadron turned back to the Aloha State … and my trip got bumped by two weeks.
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