The US Air Force Built 195 F-22s Instead of 750 and Destroyed the Tooling to Make More — Now China Has Exactly the Air Force the Raptor Was Designed to Defeat
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The USA once wanted to build 750 F-22 Raptor. In fact only 195 jets were created. Now the need for exactly this specialized fighter jet is growing again.
The US Air Force Built 195 F-22s Instead of 750 and Destroyed the Tooling to Make More — Now China Has Exactly the Air Force the Raptor Was Designed to Defeat
At roughly $140 million a jet, the Raptor was expensive to build and costly to keep ready. Cutting the buy far below the 750 the Air Force once planned spread development costs across a small fleet, driving the price of each jet higher still. It also offered little to troops fighting insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the Pentagon was betting on the F-35, one design in three variants for the Air Force, Navy, and Marines, and some lea…
Key takeaways The United States once envisioned a massive fleet of 750 F-22 Raptors to dominate the airspace, but ultimately only 195 were produced. This drastic reduction in numbers was the result of a shift in the strategic landscape. The Raptor, which was designed during the Cold War to […]
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