{"id":409717,"date":"2026-04-21T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-usaf-chose-f-35a-over-f-22-export-partners\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:00:18","slug":"heres-why-the-us-air-force-chose-the-f-35a-over-the-f-22-for-export-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=409717","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why The US Air Force Chose The F-35A Over The F-22 For Export Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The primary reason that the US steered export partners towards the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> Lightning II rather than the F-22 Raptor was never just about which jet was better. The two aircraft fundamentally help build different kinds of airpower. The F-22, which was manufactured by defense prime Lockheed Martin, was conceived as a uniquely American air-dominance fighter, protected by law from being exported and never constructed for sale to foreign operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress simply was not willing to send the F-22&#8217;s secrets abroad.<\/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":[396,7786,748,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-22-raptor","category-f-35","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409717","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=409717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409718,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409717\/revisions\/409718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=409717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=409717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}