The F22 production jigs were destroyed.

No, there will be no more F-22’s. All the production jigs were ordered destroyed to prevent Congress from ordering more. All that was saved were electronic copies of the production drawings and manuals.

because its a better combat plane then the F-35? at least in the air to air role.

1999 over Yugoslavia I think. No ones been stupid enough to try it since. Yet...

Definately photo op. That big of a battle group running together was very rare. More likely, the Carrier, couple of cruisers and 4-5 DD and FF would operate in a 5-8 mile circle, the BB and a couple more of the escorts would operate separately, but within air defense umbrella, and the unrep ships would be back aways,…

The Iowa Battleships also had 16 Harpoon with 67nm range, and 32 Tomahawk missiles with up to 1300 nm range. And a hull that could shrug off any normal (exocet ect) anti ship missile. Biggest weakness was air defense (5in 38’s not very effective against modern aircraft or missiles. 4-CIWS for close in air defense.)…

not really correct. Nuclear warships are not fantastically more expensive then conventional powered warships, at least not the way the US makes them. Factor in the difference in fuel cost, and supporting tankers, as well as the operational limits on unreps more frequently, and the cost difference less of an issue.…