Well that's fucking stupid. The strike eagle is a perfectly good aircraft and we don't have the ability to produce more F-22s, which is far superior to the f-35 lighting in almost every way other that VTOL.
In 2010, USAF initiated a study to determine the costs of retaining F-22 tooling for a future Service Life Extension Program (SLEP).[69] A RAND Corporation paper from this study estimated that restarting production and building an additional 75 F-22s would cost $17 billion, resulting in $227 million per aircraft or 54 million higher than the flyaway cost.[70] Lockheed Martin stated that restarting the production line itself would cost about $200 million.[71] Production tooling will be documented in illustrated electronic manuals stored at the Sierra Army Depot.[72] Retained tooling will produce additional components; due to the limited production run there are no reserve aircraft, leading to considerable care during maintenance.[73] Later attempts to retrieve this tooling found that the containers were empty.
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