Matrix Dwelleer said: "The Canadian government should have considered the F22 instead of the F35 IMO. Of course the ban on exporting them and the higher cost might have been a hindrance. We're their #1 neighbor however so maybe they would make an exception."
The F-22 is an exceptional plane. However, despite big lobbying pushes from Britain to Australia, the US has stubbornly refused to sell them.
The production line to build them is now shut down. Start-up costs would be 4 billion dollars before a plane would be built. There was no provision in the US budget to make any more F-22s.
Even though the F-22 has some superior specs, its widely understood it is not as technologically advanced as the F-35.
Some call it a 4.5 generation plane.
While its stealth signature is better than the f-35 right now, it is likened to the difference picking up a speeding marble compared to a speeding base ball.
Perhaps there are some here that haven't checked the specs, but an F-35 offers about a 50% larger combat range over the F-18s we are currently flying. Its the ferrying range that many people look at--the range it can fly with no armaments and with external fuel tanks. Because the F-22 can fly a bit higher their efficiency in ferrying range is better. But drop down to Combat ranges, and the f-22 and the F-35s are not significantly different.
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