I’ve heard stories that they have had discrepancies in looking at what is in the crates.
Almost as bad as not having the tooling and dies is not having a clue what the stuff in the thousands of crates actually is.
The F-22 is superior to any competitor in the air or in pre-production. However, the only way resuming F-22 production makes sense is to allow its export. The initial reason for not doing so may have made sense at the time, but the stealth cat is now out of the bag so technology transfer is no longer an issue.
“The F-22 is obsolete “
No, it is not. It is far from obsolete.