The F-22 was cancelled for costing $150 million/each
Yep.
I have always been an advocate for putting up another couple hundred Raptors...another 300 BRAND NEW/UPDATED F-15c and probably 500 or so of the newest F-16.
Augmented by a few thousand combat drones controlled by the manned aircraft via local links.
MUCH MUCH cheaper and very likely far more effective.
I thought it was closer to $200 million, but your point stands.
need more f-22 /cowbell
and update the f-15s to f-15se’s and do the same stealth updates/on the f-16s and f-18s.