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The Warzone/The Drive: Here’s The F-22 Production Restart Study The USAF Has Kept Secret For Over A Year
We finally see the study that was oddly classified on arrival and it has new relevance based on Japan's desire for a new stealth fighter.
Axing F-22 production at just 187 examples has become one of the most hotly debated and controversial defense procurement-related decisions of our time. Today, it is widely viewed, even among the USAF's brass, that this decision—made a decade ago—was near-sighted and we continue to find out new information as to how exactly it came to pass. Finally, in early 2016, the debate surrounding the need for more F-22s came to a head and study was mandated by Congress for the USAF to research what putting the super-fighter back into production would take. That study was finished in late 2016 with some of its findings openly discussed, but the document itself remained classified, until now.
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WNU Editor: I can now understand why the Japanese are interested in this plane (see previous post).
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