BLUF
Despite perhaps not being the only reason, the most obvious reason is that the US wants to be the only country to possess F-22 technology.Summary
KEY POINTS:
- With so many potentially sensitive technologies in the F-22, the US won’t even allow a stripped-down ‘export’ variant.
- There are likely aspects of the F-22 that no other country has replicated.
- The F-22 program was cut short, so production processes may not have been sufficiently established to support foreign variants.