We'll probably end-up building more F22's than current plans call for. The reason: Democrats LOVE a weapons system that is actually being produced, because it means JOBS. Part of the reason that it's so tough to get a new weapons system online is that it must compete with the old stuff. The bottom line is that nobody knows what the total cost of a single F22 because nobody can tell you how many we are going to eventually make -- only how many we PLAN to make right at this moment.
Have a feeling we will go for about 400 planes. We'll do a period of full production, followed by a period of low production levels so we can decide to build more in a hurry, or export to the UK or Oz. Sort of the way we are building F-15s right now.
That would seem to be an overload on the Liberal mind.