J-20 5th Gen Fighter Thread VIII

[Jj888]

Back in the early 2010s when I asked around whether it would be possible to restart the F-22’s production people who would know told me that the production tooling for it had been scrapped. You’d essentially be spending years to try to reverse engineer an old plane.

please understand their thinking.

1. we read many times that it is not possible to restart the f22 production. Yet they continue to believe.

2. they love their successful designs and unwilling to move on just like their favourite 737. Now it’s max out.

let them continue

 

[zyklon]

Back in the early 2010s when I asked around whether it would be possible to restart the F-22’s production people who would know told me that the production tooling for it had been scrapped. You’d essentially be spending years to try to reverse engineer an old plane.

Scrapped/repurposed, yeah. They're not gonna do it with an atrocious projected cost and painful amounts of effort just for it to be replaced almost immediately.

This is not in fact an uncommon problem. Around 2020 or 2021, the USAF actually published a RFP seeking to reverse engineer some sort of heat exchanger for the B-2.

This means not only was the tooling gone, but Northrop Grumman or a subcontractor had destroyed or lost the blueprints too (either that or the Chinese must have stolen the last remaining copy) . . .