Building New F-22 Raptor Fighters Would Be a Giant Mistake

National Security Journal ^ | 8/7/2025 | Caleb Larson

[whyilovetexas111]

Restarting the F-22 Raptor production line is a “pipe dream” that is not feasible or strategically wise. The industrial base, including the assembly line and specialized subcontractors, no longer exists, and a 2017 Air Force report estimated a restart would cost a staggering $50 billion. Furthermore, the F-22’s 1990s-era technology is now obsolete and would require an extensive and costly redesign to remain relevant.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: defense; f22; military; usairforce; whyiloveblogpimps111

[MinorityRepublican]

You can thank Prez Obozo for ordering all the tooling and design info for the F22 destroyed. He didn’t want any more to ever be produced.

We have all the info. We'll just have to set it all up in the factories again.

[PIF]

Building New F-22 Raptor Fighters Would Be a Giant Mistake

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Like reading your blog.

[Mastador1]

How about impossible since all th tooling was destroyed.

[Psalm 73]

Saw my 1st F-22's back in 2007 when they came to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa - they were spectacular.

We watched a few F-22 v. F-15 dog-fights over the water - Raptors kept turning inside on the F-15s and would get behind them. Pretty cool

[Tom Tetroxide]

Then go and upgrade it and call it the B model, re-design and re-make the tooling, and get production rolling again!

[Organic Panic]

A former colleague of mine went to work on that projects. He has been employed about 15 years just to sit at a desk and work on a bolt, a single bolt. That project is a welfare program for government contractors.

[Alas Babylon!]

When a battleship cost $25 million, the average worker got $10 A week, A brand new car was $600, A loaf of bread was 3 cents, and a good restaurant meal was a dollar.

[ro_dreaming]

486’s? Wow, not even a Pentium inside?

Hopefully at least DX4/100’s, no SX’s.

[redinIllinois]

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