Obama to decide on F22 warplane 26 Feb 09

Barack Obama, the US president, is set to will face a key defence spending decision - whether or not to continue production of the most expensive warplane in the Pentagons arsenal.

The debate over the future of the F-22 Raptor has become not just a question of its military worth.

As Tom Ackerman reports, thousands of jobs are on the line.

After the report Shihab Rattansi spoke to Travis Sharp, a military analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation, about US military spending.