You'll be sick, if you continue like this...
The F-22, too good (and expensive) to become widely used?
While we're in a financial/economic crisis and a new administration is incoming (promising to cut the Defense budget), you wonder what happens to big projects such as F-22 (which was downsized several times already).
One of the most expensive fighters (Raptor) becomes a prey of the congress. The new plan to invest huge sums in America's basic infrastructure to boost and retool the economy is probably not focusing on such projects as the Raptor.
Nevertheless, cool website> http://www.f22-raptor.com/
And the Chinese? They seem to make a copy... (surprise?), or at least something, that might look like a copy (even though apparently several design studies exist, the J-XX seems to be based on the Flanker platform, with resemblance to F-22, F-16 etc.)
some sources:
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