{"id":377042,"date":"2026-02-27T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-americas-air-superiority-fighter-jet-grim-future\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T00:00:17","slug":"why-americas-air-superiority-fighter-jet-has-such-a-grim-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=377042","title":{"rendered":"Why America\u2019s Air Superiority Fighter Jet Has Such A Grim Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While some may point to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2044622\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-f-22-raptors-built\/\" >the limited production run and costs of maintaining the Air Force&#8217;s fleet of F-22 Raptors<\/a><\/span>, that&#8217;s likely not the biggest issue that will ultimately cause the Raptor to retire. The Raptor currently fills a role no other aircraft can, and that is a capability the Air Force is more determined than ever to maintain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the lack of a production line may make the F-22 future look grim, the bigger threat is being replaced by the F-47.<\/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":[396,7786,628,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","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\/377042","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=377042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377043,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377042\/revisions\/377043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}