DrM schrieb am 21.10.2024 13:40:
The United States Air Force is the only operator of the F-22. As of August 2022, it has 183 aircraft in its inventory
Also die Orginalangabe ist von 2015:
Inventory: total force, 183
(Current as of September 2015)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173133/http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/FactSheets/Display/tabid/224/Article/104506/f-22-raptor.aspx
Aktuell steht das da immer noch,
aber ob das in Bezug auf die Stückzahl noch stimmt,
ist wohl eher unwahrscheinlich.
Inventory: total force, 183
(Current as of August 2022)
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/article/104506/f-22-raptor/
"World Air Forces 2023" listet 177 in Dienst befindliche F-22:
https://www.flightglobal.com/download?ac=90688
2023 berichtet Popular Mechanics von 185 F-22,
von denen aber 32 eingemottet werden sollen,
da sie ohnehin nicht kampftauglich seien:
If Congress allows it, the service will mothball 32 of its 185 F-22s ... What’s more, the planes are early model production jets, known as Block 20 jets, that were built as training aircraft, and are not actually combat-capable.
...
The Air Force may have ended up with 187 Raptors, but that doesn’t mean it ended up with 187 fighting Raptors. The service always intended to build a significant number of F-22s to a less complex Block 20 standard—training planes that were incapable of real-world air combat. Unfortunately, as the number of Raptors was cut by more than half, the Block 20 jets made up a larger number of the overall fleet than originally intended. Although the Air Force received 187 Raptors, 74 were built to the Block 10/20 standard, incapable of combat, while 112 are so-called Block 30 and Block 35 “combat-coded” jets, fully combat ready.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a43540579/f-22-raptor-jets-not-combat-capable/
Die Zahl 112 deckt sich auch relativ gut mit der deutschen Wikipedia-Seite zur F-22.
Es ist offenbar so, dass 40% der F-22 nie für Kampfeinsätze gedacht (bzw. gebaut) waren.