With a unit cost of $130 million, the F-22 is unlikely to be a major player on the export market, and although Congress is moving towards rescinding the prohibition on overseas sales of the Raptor, the US government will still have to decide what technology is releasable. With production set to end in 2012 after just 183 aircraft, less than half the USAF's stated requirement, exports could keep the line open, but Japan is the only realistic prospect.
Exportable F-22
Repeal of the so-called Obey amendment would allow the US Air Force to fund Lockheed to develop an exportable configuration for the F-22, but the aircraft would still have to compete for any Japanese order against the latest F-15 and F/A-18 variants, as well as the Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon - all fourth-generation fighters by Lockheed's reckoning.
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