{"id":2083789,"date":"2026-06-15T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/congress-blocks-f-22-raptor-retirement-2032-hasc-ndaa-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:22:39","slug":"congress-blocks-f-22-raptor-retirement-2032-hasc-ndaa-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/congress-blocks-f-22-raptor-retirement-2032-hasc-ndaa-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands Off the Raptor: Congress Blocks F-22 Retirement Through 2032"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\nCongress just told the Air Force it cannot retire a single F-22 Raptor for the next six years.\n\nOn June 4, the House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act extending the prohibition on F-22 retirements through September 30, 2032. The amendment, introduced by Representative Austin Scott of Georgia and passed by voice vote, protects all 184 remaining Raptors from the boneyard until the end of fiscal year 2032 \u2014 five years beyond the current restriction.\n\nThe message from Capitol Hill is unambiguous: you do not retire the best air superiority fighter on the planet until you have something to replace it with.\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4f8;border:1px solid #dde3ea;border-radius:10px;padding:20px 24px;margin:24px 0;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.75\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#333\">Quick Facts \u2014 F-22 Retirement Block<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Amendment:<\/strong> HASC FY2027 NDAA (HR 8800), Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Vote:<\/strong> Voice vote; full bill passed 44-12<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Protection period:<\/strong> Through September 30, 2032<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Fleet protected:<\/strong> All 184 F-22 Raptors<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>AF wanted to retire:<\/strong> 32 Block 20 jets (training-only)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Upgrade cost:<\/strong> $3.3 billion \/ ~15 years for Block 20 upgrades<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Successor:<\/strong> F-47 (NGAD) \u2014 first flight 2028, operational mid-2030s<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Block 20 Problem<\/h2>\n\nThe Air Force&#8217;s argument for partial retirement was not unreasonable. Of the 184 Raptors, approximately 32 are Block 20 aircraft \u2014 the oldest production models, delivered between 1999 and the early 2000s. These jets are used exclusively as trainers. They lack the combat-coded sensor and weapons integration of the newer Block 30 and Block 35 variants and cannot deploy to a fight in their current configuration.\n\nUpgrading each Block 20 to combat standard costs roughly $50 million per jet. Former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall argued the maths did not work: the service could save $1.8 billion between FY2024 and FY2028 by sending those 32 jets to the boneyard and focusing resources on the remaining 152 combat-capable airframes.\n\nCongress disagreed \u2014 and not for the first time. The FY2023 NDAA first blocked F-22 retirements and mandated that all Block 20s be upgraded to Block 30\/35 standard. Lockheed Martin estimated the full upgrade programme at $3.3 billion over approximately 15 years, including open mission systems, enhanced stealth coatings, electronic warfare upgrades, AIM-260 compatibility, and drone teaming capability. If completed, the combat-coded fleet would grow from roughly 149 to 178 aircraft.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Why Congress Will Not Let Go<\/h2>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-opt-id=798959486  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/06\/two-f-22-raptors-formation-flight-usaf.jpg\" alt=\"Two F-22 Raptors in formation flight\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Two F-22 Raptors in formation. All 184 remaining jets are now protected from retirement through fiscal year 2032. U.S. Air Force photo \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nThe calculus is simple. The Air Force&#8217;s fighter fleet has dipped below the congressionally mandated legal minimum of roughly 1,970 combat-coded aircraft \u2014 a shortfall of about 70 jets. Representative August Pfluger of Texas called this a &#8220;wake-up call.&#8221; The F-15C, which shared the air superiority mission with the Raptor for decades, is being retired. The F-15EX Eagle II buy has been halved. And the F-47 \u2014 the sixth-generation fighter that will eventually replace the F-22 \u2014 is not expected to reach operational capability until the mid-2030s.\n\nThat leaves the F-22 as the only dedicated air superiority platform the United States has. Every Raptor that goes to the boneyard is a jet that cannot be built again \u2014 the production line was shut down in December 2011 after Secretary of Defense Robert Gates capped procurement at 187 airframes, down from the originally planned 750.\n\nThree have been lost to crashes. The remaining 184 are all there will ever be.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Readiness Question<\/h2>\n\nKeeping the F-22 flying is not cheap and it is not easy. The mission capable rate dropped to 40.19 percent in fiscal year 2024 \u2014 the lowest in roughly 20 years and a sharp decline from 52 percent in FY2023 and 57.4 percent in FY2022. The Pentagon&#8217;s 80 percent target has never been met.\n\nThe primary culprits are spare parts shortages and stealth coating maintenance. The Raptor requires approximately 30 hours of maintenance for every hour of flight, with roughly one-third of that devoted to maintaining the radar-absorbing coatings that make it invisible. At a cost of roughly $85,000 per flight hour \u2014 compared to about $42,000 for the F-35A and $22,000 for an F-16 \u2014 the Raptor is the most expensive tactical fighter in the inventory to operate.\n\nBut it is also the most capable in the air-to-air arena, and no amount of cost analysis changes the fact that nothing else in the American arsenal can do what it does.\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Waiting for the F-47<\/h2>\n\nBoeing won the Next Generation Air Dominance contract \u2014 now designated the F-47 \u2014 and the FY2027 budget requests $5.03 billion for development on top of $3.4 billion in FY2026. First flight is targeted for 2028, but the engineering and manufacturing development phase runs through late 2031, with operational capability now pushed to the mid-2030s. A 2024 programme pause to reassess requirements and affordability, combined with industrial saturation from the B-21 Raider and T-7A programmes competing for the same engineering talent, has stretched the timeline.\n\nUntil the F-47 is flying, tested, and in squadron service, the F-22 is it. Congress knows this. The Air Force knows this. And now, by law, all 184 Raptors will be around to prove it \u2014 for at least six more years.\n\n<em>Sources: Air &#038; Space Forces Magazine, The War Zone, Defense News, FlightGlobal, Rep. Austin Scott press release, GAO<\/em>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress just told the Air Force it cannot retire a single F-22 Raptor for the next six years. On June 4, the House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment to the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act extending the prohibition on F-22 retirements through September 30, 2032. 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