F-22’s were designed for a battle field that doesn’t exist in today’s world. Time to spend your money on upgrading your bread and butter fleet of aircraft and take that F-22 money and put that in to a 6th generation fighter aircraft or UAV’s.

F-22’s are cool and all, but will soon be a relic aircraft due to their high cost of maintenance.

That being said, they are fun to send out to intercept Russian bogies coming too close to Alaska. I bet the Russian pilots get a kick out of being intercepted by one.

“Time to break out the camera, Sergi!”

As for the Boeing money grab? You know they make the F-22 as well? Or, would if the F-22 program wasn’t discontinued.

Seeing how Boeing can’t seem to make a reliable commercial airplane these days, might as well make some money on defense contracts! Gotta keep the stock holders happy!