Copy and paste from Wikipedia: Throughout the 2000s when the Department of Defense was primarily fighting counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the USAF's procurement goal of 381 F-22s was questioned over rising costs, initial reliability and availability problems, limited multirole versatility, and a lack of relevant adversaries for air combat missions. In 2006, Comptroller General of the United States David Walker found that "the DoD has not demonstrated the need" for more investment in the F-22 and further opposition was expressed by Bush Administration Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and his successor Robert Gates, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon R. England, and Chairman of U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Senators John Warner and John McCain. Under Rumsfeld, procurement was severely cut to 183 aircraft. The F-22 lost influential supporters in 2008 after the forced resignations of Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and the Chief of Staff of the Air Force General T. Michael Moseley. In November 2008, Gates stated that the F-22 lacked relevance in asymmetric post-Cold War conflicts and in April 2009, under the Obama Administration, he called for production to end in FY 2011 after completing 187 F-22's. The "big brains" above killed the F-22 program.
F-22's are huge, compared to an F-16, or even an F-18. I saw one flying with a P-51, an F-16, and an F-18 Super Hornet. The F-22 was by far the biggest plane.
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oh nice! I want to see it! I didn’t like the wind at all. It almost ruined my audio and made my handheld footage worse than expected, but warp stabilizer did the trick in post production 😉
