Raptor Has No Rivals -- New Wars
Because there is nothing else like it in the skies, only 187 F-22 Raptor fighters should be more than enough according to Wired’s Danger Room:
At the moment, the only air forces fielding so-called “4.5-generation” fighters that even approach Raptor-level capability are all strong U.S. allies: the U.K., Germany, Italy and Spain with their small fleets of Typhoons, France with its three squadrons of Rafales, and Australia with a single squadron of F/A-18F Super Hornets. Lockheed estimates it might eventually sell more than 3,000 stealthy, “fifth-generation” F-35s to U.S. allies.
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