{"id":307191,"date":"2025-10-26T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-usaf-will-soon-have-over-30-extra-f-22-stealth-fighters\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T06:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:30:20","slug":"heres-why-the-us-air-force-will-soon-have-over-30-extra-f-22-stealth-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=307191","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s Why The US Air Force Will Soon Have Over 30 Extra F-22 Stealth Fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Development of the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"87592\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>F-22 Raptor<\/span><\/span> initially started in the Cold War, with the Air Force planning to purchase 750 of the next-generation fighters. But the Soviet Union collapsed, and with it disappeared any peer adversary that justified the US spending vast sums of money on high-end and expensive systems. The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2029518\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/a-12-avenger-ii-us-navy-5-billion-failed-steath-bomber\/\" >Navy&#8217;s A-12 Avenger II was canceled<\/a><\/span>, and the Air Force&#8217;s F-22 and B-2 programs were heavily truncated. In the end, only 187 serial production F-22s were procured, of which over 30 were training variant Block 20 that are not combat worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed Martin is reportedly trying to convince the Air Force up upgrade its F-22 Block 20 jets to be combat rated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,7786,628,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-f-22-raptor","category-fighter-jets","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307192,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307191\/revisions\/307192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}