laststandonzombieisland

According to Aviation Week, http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/awx/2011/12/13/awx_12_13_2011_p0-405930.xml&headline=U.S.%20Mothballs%20F-22%20Production%20Gear%20for%20MRO

The last of the 187 F-22’s have come off the line.

The fleet, as conceived during the Cold War, was to have been 750. That dropped to 381, then 243, before former Defense Secretary Robert Gates capped it at 187 in a belt-tightening move over program backers’ strong objections.

A total of more than 30,000 jigs, fixtures and other “tooling” used to build the plane are being logged into a database and tucked into containers, some custom built, for long-term storage at Sierra Army Depot, Herlong, California.

The hardware is valued at $2 billion to $3 billion, according to Lockheed, the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier by sales.

Now as long as no one sets a fire at  Herlong California in the weeks before a US/China war, we should be good to reopen the production line in a year or two of hard work…