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A RARE BIRD F-22 production has been capped at 187 aircraft. Will that be enough in a post 2020 world when PAK-FAs and J-XXs start to proliferate? (USAF
The case for more F-22s
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In justifying his 2009 decision to close the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor line at just 187 aircraft, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said China would not field a fifth generation combat aircraft before 2020, by which time the US and its allies would have more than a thousand stealth aircraft in service.
The majority of these were planned to be F-35 JSFs, with the balance made up of the F-22s and a handful of B-2 stealth bombers.
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