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To: Carriage Hill

Isn’t that the one that we cant make more of w/o starting from scratch because Obama had the tooling/dies/blueprints etc. all destroyed?


8 posted on 02/10/2025 7:47:19 AM PST by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: desertsolitaire
The F-22 tooling is mostly still around.

The basic F-22 design is 1970s and 1980s technology and the YF-22 first flew in 1990.

So much has changed that it's better to start with a clean sheet design.

If fact, the biggest limitation of the F-35 and the one that designers are struggling with is that the current hardware and form factor of the F-35 airframe is having a hard time keeping up with the vision of what a 2040s F-35 objective system development path is going to look like.

The F-22 is a great airplane but is after it's current suite of upgrades it's likley end of it's cost effective retrofitable development potential.

51 posted on 02/10/2025 9:22:19 AM PST by rdcbn1 (TV )
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