F-22 Retiring Early

[mrsteel]

Just thought it’d be fun to speculate if the F-22 is going to retire earlier than anticipated for F-15EX‘s and gen 6 fighters, is there a chance we could see a module be worked on after its retirement?

[razo+r]

No.

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

[SpaceEnthusiast]

9 hours ago, mrsteel said:

Just thought it’d be fun to speculate if the F-22 is going to retire earlier than anticipated for F-15EX‘s and gen 6 fighters, is there a chance we could see a module be worked on after its retirement?

Likely not, just because something has been retired doesn't mean enough of its documentation is going to be made public.

 

And even then, just because something has had enough of its documentation made public, a module might still be a while off. Examples: Mudhen, Phantom, a ton of planes from ww2, etc

[SkateZilla]

It's not retiring yet, it's in reduced deployment,

F-22As can fly in undetected and send data back to F-15EX's that are basically missile trucks.

What they are going to do is reserve some F-22A Airframes for parts to last at least 20 more years.

F-22A is a dying airframe, tooling is gone, line is gone, no way to make more, it's dead.

NGAD Program will replace F-22A, with Prototypes being evaluated by 2030.

You know the F-117A's were retired over a decade ago, right... see how that retirement's going?

USAF will tell the world they are retiring them, save 20-30 of them, and transfer them to a specialized unit.

F-22A can out turn, out fly, and last in a 2050 battlefield, why? because nobody today can hack a IBM286, They may add ability to Link with newer aircraft via subsystems, but the core aircraft is a late 80s Hardware set.