The US has stopped production of the F22 because it could not do most of the things the manufacters said it could do like ,all weather fighter, communicate with other air land and sea, design flaws. The corrosion of aluminum panels that had to be replaced with titanium at the cost of $50K each, structural problems(part of titanium core not heat treated)service life 8000 hours. The F22 was put in production before testing was completed which is why the cost per plane continues to be astronomical. The tax payers are paying for expensive trash that does not work. The F35 is facing problems as well. Most of the F15's are grounded for structural problems which only leaves us with the F18s and F16s while the British have the Typhoon,the French have the Rafael, the Swedish have the Gripen, the Russians have the Su37 and now the Chinese have the J20 which are all excellent aircraft. Its ashame the idiots over here messed up the F22, it had a lot of potential. Steath aircraft are now obsolete since advance radar can now detect them which why they are retiring the F117. Thrust vectoring is the way to go.