China's F-22

The US sees no value in making more F-22's. The program has been cancelled. China sees lots of value in building them. They are hot on the trail of building their own state of the art fighter plane.

"given the quantity and quality of data Chinese hackers have been stealing in the past five years, it's possible that they have much of the American technology that makes the F-22 and F-35 possible."

I remember when the US said China wasn't capable of sending a man into space too. Then they did it. I remember when the US said China couldn't make a small enough nuclear warhead to fit on a missile. Then they did it (They stole technology from Los Alamos). We didn't think China was smart enough to hack into the Pentagon. They do it all the time. Our analysis is always wrong.

We didn't know India was working on nukes then they tested one. We didn't know Pakistan was working on Nukes then they tested one too. We didn't think North Korea had the know how to make a nuke but then they tested one. We were sure Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They didn't.

Our intelligence sucks.

10 years is not that far. Once our program is shuttered that is the end. The planes we fly today were built 25-30 years ago. The F-15, F-16, F-18 were all built in the 70's. You need to plan way in advance. The B-52 was built in the 50's.