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The F-22 is exclusive to the USA - it cannot be exported. The F-35 can and is sold to allies and friendlies however.

This should be all you need to know.

That was a congressional decision and an awful one at that given that foreign purchases would have kept the production line alive.

I think it’s because the Raptors are just too advanced. They would beat out F-35’s pretty easily with their superior speed, climb, and stealth.

However it’s pointless to keep making them since adversaries aren’t close to competing with it yet and the next best thing is the F-35 which is far cheaper to produce.

I’ve heard F-22 can do things even many of the pilots of them aren’t necessarily aware of as their training is reduced to omit certain highly classified aspects.

“ The F-35, along with the F-22, is now the premier fighter aircraft in the world.”

That’s not the same as stating a preference between the two.

He's a former Java developer who is now accustomed to Scala, obviously he prefers that to Kotlin because it's what he knows...

do you have Scala and Kotlin reversed? Surely Kotlin is the trimmed down for foreign markets version of Scala.