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Originally Posted by Blademaster
US should go for it. It will only help them in the long run. If Japan orders 100, it will lower the price drastically for US Air Force, allowing them to buy more, which in turn, lowers the price even more creating more incentive to buy more F-22s. The Pentagon should going out on all cylinders and getting Japan to buy the F-22s. Not only that, they should sell them to Australia. I am not sure about Israel. I hope Canada will buy those planes but highly unlikely.
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If the price tag drops, and more countries like Japan buy into it, then...perhaps. Giant military purchases of state of the art, high tech weapons/vehicles is not something you see happen to often here in Canada. Politicians hear rule by the vote, not common sense. And there are a lot of bleeding hearts in Canada who vote.
More than likely what will happen, is once the CF-18's are retired, we will replace then with super hornets. And if the military is really lucky, the politicians might give them a lolly pop in the form of a few J35's. But the F22? I HIGHLY dought it, not unless the price tag drastically drops, and more countries buy into it, so that it is not so much a representation of "American" military power and influence.