CAD cuts cut cost for fighters and airborne lasers

摘要

The last production fighter Boeing built was the P-26 Peashooter, an open-cockpit monoplane with wire-braced wings that first flew in 1932. During the opening weeks of the Pacific theater in WWII, Mitsubishi Zeros rapidly swept the handful of Peashooters still flying from the skies. Now Boeing is back with the F-22 Raptor, a twin-engine air-superiority fighter with titanium and composite wings being built in partnership with Lockheed Martin. If they perform as advertised, Raptors will have everybody else ducking for cover.