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Dave Majumdar, The National Interest: The F-22 and F-15 Could Be Rebooted and Made Even Deadlier. It Won't Happen and Here's Why.
The cost would be enormous, for starters.
The F-22 and F-15 Could Be Rebooted and Made Even Deadlier. It Won't Happen and Here's Why.
Restarting the F-22 production line would compete with the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Penetrating Counter Air (PCA) effort to develop a successor to the Raptor
The United States Air Force has no interest in purchasing either Boeing’s advanced fourth-generation F-15X version of the aging Eagle. Nor does the service have any plans to revive the stealthy fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in either its original configuration or in a modified form with avionics from the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Instead the priority for the Air Force is to produce as many F-35s as it can to increase the proportion of fifth-generation fighters in its fleet while it continue to explore next-generation technologies for the future air superiority mission.
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WNU Editor: It may be too expensive to reboot the F-22 and F-15, but it is not stopping the Pentagon from making the existing fleet even more deadlier .... The Air Force Plans to Arm Stealth F-22s and F-35s with the Ultimate Weapon (Kris Osborn, The National Interest).
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