“There is no doubt that the F-22 has unique capabilities that we need-the penetration and defeat of an advanced enemy air-defense and fighter fleet,” Gates explained at the time. Instead, Defense Secretary Robert Gates in 2009 abruptly ended Raptor production. As recently as the early 2000s, the Air Force anticipated buying more than 400 F-22s in order to replace, on a one-for-one basis, all the F-15C Eagle fighters then in the inventory.
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