Eight more F-22 stealth fighters arrive in Japan

Posted on: Feb. 18th, 2007 || Source: boston.com | E-mail Article | Print Article

KADENA AIR BASE, Japan (Reuters) - The United States sent eight more U.S. F-22 stealth fighter planes to the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on Sunday in their first full deployment overseas.

The Raptors, the U.S. Air Force's most advanced fighters and said to be the most expensive fighter planes ever built, arrived at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, a Reuters photographer and a TV cameraman said.

Their arrival was a week later than originally scheduled, although on Saturday an advance pair of F-22 Raptors landed.

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