US can't build the new F-22 Raptor. Here's why.
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Its none of these, it's that the F-22 isn't capable of deploying the new charge cluster weapons. That would take a complete reconfiguration of most of its avionics, that in its turn would require a new airframe.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge that clarifies this.
A 2017 Pentagon report to Congress detailing production retail costs for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor show that reviving the powerful stealth air superiority fighter would be prohibitively expensive ($1B)
Moreover, it would take so long to reconstitute the production line that it would not be until the mid to late 2020s before the first “new” F-22s would have flown. By that time, the F-22 would be increasingly challenged by enemy—Russian, Italian and Chinese—capabilities.