[Mariner]

A little good news to help you sleep better at night.

I think the original plan was for ~400 units.

[momincombatboots]

Awwww no pictures?

[RC one]

Air dominance is always a good investment.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Compare to what the F35 costs now and what that delivers Raptors are a bargain. No chance to get more in 2009.

[Lower Deck]

I would assume the same line that they built the F-22 on has now been retooled for the F-35. So restarting the F-22 would likely put a crimp in F-35 deliveries, unless the government pays for a whole new assembly line for the F-22. And what would that add to the per-unit cost?

[PIF]

750 scaled back to 400, scaled back to 187 - at least 2 of those have crashed

[Phlyer]

I think the original plan was for ~400 units.

The original plan, that was used to justify a new start, was for 850 units. That was derived from actual mission need. It was used as a basis for design decisions on developing new technology (e.g. actuators) versus using off-the-shelf technology.

By the time we won the production contract, the official planning quantity was 648 aircraft, which was based on all sorts of numbers but practically was a direct replacement for F-15s rather than a true mission need analysis. It was on this number that we based production decisions like automation (robots) versus manual fabrication techniques. Changing both of those decisions added a lot of unit cost to the program because the payoff was in spreading the development over more units.

If someone had intended to commit deliberate and malicious treason, they could hardly have made a more effective attack against our nation than limiting the F-22 to 187 planes.

[Kickass Conservative]

Start buying F-15 Silent Eagles as well as more F-22’s.
No need to start a new Production Line for the F-15’s.
The engineering is done.

Also build a modern version of the A-10 Warthog and give it to the Marines. Use what already works and add updated Technology.

If that’s too expensive, rebuild every A-10 Airframe in our Inventory using the latest and greatest. It’s already the best at what it does. None of this Multi Role garbage.

Yes, all the world’s problems can be solved by me and my Laptop. LOL

[Mark17]

The Air Force has provided the House a classified report on restarting the F-22 Raptor fighter jet program, congressional staff said Tuesday.

Did some rat bastard Democrat party hack leak it to the NYT?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

YAY!

[Tucker39]

Cancelled in 2009. That was the bath house traitor’s doing. Why am I not in the least surprise?

[jz638]

The real question shouldn’t be F-22 v. F-35 but why we need fighter pilots in the first place. With the state of radars and missiles, I don’t think there will ever be another meaningful dogfight with a US aircraft, aerial combat will be done from standoff range in the future, if at all.

Put the money into drones and figure out how to remove more Americans from the battlefields.

[Sequoyah101]

At last. Something right.

[higgmeister]

Wow! Is Newt Gingrich back in DC pulling strings for the Cobb County economy? Are we seeing a Karen Handel winner effect already?

[GBA]

I like it! Quality in quantity sounds good to me.

It'll be expensive retooling up for production again, but then, where are you going to find a better airplane than the F-22?

Restarting production would also allow for improving on the original manufacturing and design with all they've learned in the field since obama shut it down, including any design changes to counter aircraft that didn't exist originally.

So, as good as the current F-22 is now, imagine how much better the "new" F-22 would be!

Should give US absolute air superiority for a couple decades or so with the numbers to back it up.