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F-22 Raptor & F-35 JSF?

I’ve been wondering why the USAF first ordered more than 400 Raptors (or was it 600?), and now they decreased it dramatically to 187?
The JSF on the other hand will be mass produced like h3ll!
From what I’ve read and heard the past year-year and a half, the F-22 completely out classes the F-35 in almost every aspect…

So my question is pretty simple… Why decrease the number of orders on the F-22 so dramatically and increase the orders of the JSF dramatically?
Is there a huge flaw in the Raptor we don’t know about?
Or is it the other way around, that the raptor is so good that they think 187 will be more than enough?
Does the USA have another project running which will replace the F-22? Unlikely since designing, building, testing and producing a new plane will take decades.

This really confuses me, The F-35 is almost as expensive as the F-22 but not as good, why not just bulk up on Raptors instead of JSF’s?

I really hope to get some real neutral answers…

Cheers,

IT–

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