I believe just over 180 Raptors have been built... a fraction of what was originally envisioned.
Actually you are very close. About 195 Raptors have been built. 187 are in service and 8 are used as test airplanes.
They still need to find the cause the problem that causes the pilots to experience hypoxia during flight.
Your figure is very close to the 187 built, with six more added in for development purposes.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22-production.htm
The decades of work that brought this beautiful beast into being, the cost of development and all the man hours and ingenuity, are now lost.
187 aircraft? 187?
This is like suggesting an Eagle should be able to fend off crows. Well sure, it probably could. What about 500 to 1 crows against it?
To produce an aircraft like this in numbers that will expose it to overwhelming risk, is just asinine.
It’s probably not possible at this point, but I’d like to see the nation vote in a good person that would put this sucker back into production, and give us another 320 aircraft.
The article I linked to above talks about other planes becoming suspect at 2014 and 2015.
What do they expect us to defend this nation with, paper airplanes?