The Air Force plans to ask for 20 more F-22A Raptors, extending the shut down of the production line from 2011 to 2012, reports the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Kenneth Miller, the Air Force Secretary’s special assistant for acquisition governance and transparency, told the Star-Telegram that the request would be in the Fiscal 2008 budget. If approved that would raise the total buy—currently capped at 183—to 203. That is still shy of the 381 Raptors the Air Force says it should have to cover its 10 Air and Space Expeditionary Forces and have enough for training, testing, etc.
F-35 Contracts Slip in Delay Unrelated to Radar Woes
June 7, 2025
Funding to build the next two batches of F-35 fighters, originally expected to be finalized by the end of June, won’t be awarded to Lockheed Martin until sometime this summer, the jet's Joint Program Office told Air & Space Forces Magazine.