157. Which is why the F-22 & F-35 were always intended as a team.
F-22 control skies F-35 take battle to the ground.
750 was just insane. There simply is no threat to warrant that size of a fleet. Cold war is over. Russia has ramped down production.
No other country on the planet has more than 70-80 Tier I fighters.
Sure Russia & China have numbers but most of it is aging and obsolete.
So instead of US having an airforce that is larger than rest of world combined in the future we will need to accept having an airforce "only 2x as large as the #2 country".
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