>>617120
Uhm, excuse me? Did you just fucking suggest we put the F22s on TRUCKS and DRIVE them on CIVILLIAN roads to a safer location? Are you fucking retarded? Do you even know what you are talking about? They would have to start a research project dedicated to finding the optimal carrier vehicle for the F22, and possibly the F35 as well. A pre-assessment would have to be made to decide whether the F22-carrier fleet should be compatible with the F35 from the get go, if there should be a ddistinct F35 carrier, or if buying a system that can be later upgraded to the F35 carrier after the F22 has been phased out.
After deciding this, you would need to figure out what specific requirements are necessary, and see if there are any options already on the market. Of course there aren't, there never are.
So after another year of planning, you need to set up a contest for a contract about designing and building a new F22 carrier vehicle, which can transport an F22 from a military base to a safer location. After a couple years of development time, the first designs should be submitted by the competitors and evaluated by the Pentagon. At this point the project also requires a name, and something as simple as "plane transporter" won't work. So you have to sit a coupe of Lieutenants in a room and have them brainstorm for a month about the A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.E. that is supposed to represent this TOP SECRET project (because the enemy shouldn't know about our plane transport capabilities, duh).
After the project received a name, the name has been leaked to the public intentionally to cause fear and distraction in our enemies hearts, and the first designs have been evaluated, you would have to send the requested changes to the contestants, who would have to spend another few years developing prototypes. At this point you also need to get it through congress that you truly need plane transport capabilities, and to do that you need to promise everyone that as many pars as possible will be constructed all over the US.
Oh, and Boeing requires extra funding for their prototype, because the new optically-guided-aerial-combat-vehicle-transorting-system-engine-fuel-flow-adjustment-system (colloquially known as gas pedal) has had a few setbacks.
After the first few prototypes have been built and tested you could finally move into a troop testing phase, and after the troop tests have been successful, and without listening to the opinions of the troopers, you can finally order a couple thousand Boeing YT-147 plane transport vehicles.
Also, you need to consider counter intelligence, because the Russians will probably try to acquire our plans, so you have to make up a couple fake ones and send them to the producers, hoping that the Russians will intercept them, and use them instead of the real blue prints. Nothing can go wrong with sending contradictory data to anyone. Nothing.
It would take a decade and, if we are lucky, and a coupe billion dollars before we could transport planes like that. It would probably be cheaper to leave the F22s where they are and replace them with new planes. After all, they are old and outdated anyways. Add a few more F35s to the contracts,