There is a reason why the United States has shunned any and all possibilities for any nation to lay their hands on its most coveted stealth fighter, which is exclusively deployed by the US Air Force— the F-22 Raptors. Only a handful of these Lockheed Martin fighters are operational in the ranks of the US forces after being retired in 2009..
..and they along with their fellow stealth brothers F-35s give Pentagon the edge above other fighters under the same fifth-generation bracket in providing aerial superiority.
However, while the F-22s currently rank as the most advanced fighters in the world owing to their aerodynamic design and state-of-the-art features, there was a brief period of time it was given a run for its money by another dominant air superiority fighter of a similar stature— Northrop Grumman’s YF-23....MORE
