...did you fail to read the article?

Actually the tooling may well not exist. I can’t say for certain regarding the F-22, but it’s not uncommon for tooling to be destroyed once an aircraft’s production run has ceased.

You’d have to unpack and reinstall the tooling, but my non-expert thought is that the bigger problem is getting the people building them back up to speed. Planes get cheaper the more of them you make, and production lines get faster as they get experience, and it could very well take a dozen runs before things are…

Seems like the obvious solution would just be to buy some more... I mean they shut down the program, but it’s not like Lockheed dumped all the files when that happened. All the tooling and plans exist, why not just crank out a few more? Maybe it’s just too prohibitively expensive to start up the assembly line again?