F-22 Raptor Thread

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interestingly F-22 Was ‘Too Provocative’ to Send to Mideast: US Air Force
The
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will deploy around the world much sooner than the
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‘s other fifth-generation fighter did after
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, the commander of Air Combat Command said Tuesday.

Air Force Gen. Herbert “Hawk” Carlisle, who announced to reporters at the Pentagon that the F-35A had achieved the IOC milestone, said while the
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did not see its first operational deployment until 2014, a decade after it reached IOC, the F-35 would not face the same obstacles.

“On a couple of occasions, we were going to send [the F-22] to different theaters and we didn’t because there were at least a group of people who thought that it was too provocative to send,” he said. “It was less about us not being able to or at least not wanting to; it was more about the message. … We didn’t send it to the Middle East, frankly because it was considered to be a provocative move to send the only 5th-generation fighter in the world to that environment.”

Carlisle doubled down on previous comments that he would be willing to deploy the F-35A to the Middle East immediately if called to do so by geographic combatant commanders. While the aircraft has not yet reached advanced close-air support capability, he said it was ready to complete combat missions, including pre-planned strikes, on-call air interdiction, and air superiority missions.

While the aircraft was not currently part of the global force management process in which units are scheduled to rotate through the Middle East, “it is scheduled down the road,” he said.

He also said he expected to deploy the F-35A in the European and Pacific theaters within the next 18 months.

“You’ll see it out there much quicker. You’ll see it operating with our friends and partners. We’re already seeing that occur,” he said, noting that the aircraft had appeared at the Royal International Air Tattoo in Fairford, England, in July.

Asked if he thought deploying the F-35 in the European theater near Russia would be provocative, Carlisle said he didn’t, adding that he hadn’t thought an F-22 deployment to the Middle East was provocative either.

“I think it sends a good signal,” he said, noting that the deployment of F-22s to Europe last fall had been a success. “There’s great messaging that goes with that, great capabilities with that. I think it reassures friends and allies and it is a deterrent.”

The Air Force is expected to buy 1,763 F-35As in all. Carlisle said he hoped to acquire at least 60 of the aircraft per year, and optimally 80.
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Up close and personal with the Raptor pilots fighting Daesh in Iraq and Syria.

Filmed at Al Dhafra airbase in the UAE, this clip shows F-22 pilots with the 90th Fighter Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, preparing to launch at night for a mission in support of Operation Inherent Resolve against ISIS in the modernized U.S. Air Force Raptor multirole jets.

Each Raptor mission against Daesh usually involves
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since the aircraft, to keep their stealthiness, do not carry external fuel tanks.
The Alaskan Raptors belong to the latest available Block and can drop 8
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; they also embed a radar upgrade that enhanced the capabilities of the aircraft in the realm of the so-called “kinetic situational awareness”: although they drop very few bombs against
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, the 5th generation stealth planes exploit their advanced onboard sensors, such as the AESA (
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radar, to gather details about the enemy targets that they share
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F-22 don' t have Link 16 but an other system mainly usable between F-22 despite that can receive infos from others aircrafs but not transmit to them.
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Serials of Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor

A total of 195 pre-production and production, 8 retired and lost remains 187 F-22s.

87-0700/0701 Lockheed YF-22A
91-4001/4009 Lockheed F-22A Raptor
EMD aircraft
99-006/007 Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor
PRTV aircraft. Serials cancelled and replaced
with 99-4010/4011.
99-4010/4011 Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor
c/n 4010/4011. PRTV aircraft
00-4012/4017 Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor
c/n 4012/4017. IP aircraft
01-4018/4027 Lockheed Martin F-22A LRIP Lot 1 Block 10 Raptor
c/n 4018/4027.
02-4028/4040 Lockheed Martin F-22A LRIP Lot 2 Block 10 Raptor
c/n 4028/4040
03-4041/4061 Lockheed Martin F-22A LRIP Lot 3 Block 20 Raptor
c/n 441/4061
04-4062/4083 Lockheed Martin F-22A Block 20 Raptor
c/n 4062/4083
05-4084/4107 Lockheed Martin F-22A Block 30 Raptor
c/n 4084/4107
06-4108/4130 Lockheed Martin F-22A Block 30 Raptor
c/n 4108/4130
07-4131/4151 Lockheed Martin F-22A Block 30 Raptor
c/n 4131/4151
08-4152/4171 Lockheed Martin F-22A Block 35 Raptor
c/n 4152/4171
09-4172/4191 Lockheed Martin F-22A Lot 9 Block 35 Raptor
c/n 4172/4191
10-4192/4195 Lockheed Martin F-22A Block 40 Raptor
c/n 4192/4195

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Jeff Head

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Serials of Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor

A total of 195 pre-production and production, 8 retired and lost remains 187 F-22s.
As of this date, the US now has the following numbers of 5th generation aircraft:

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F-22A Raptor - 187 aircraft (USAF)

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F-35A Lightning II - 100 aircraft (USAF)

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F-35B - Lightning II - 42 aircraft (USMC)

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F-35C Lighting II - 20 aircraft (US Navy)

That's a total of 359 operational 5th generation aircraft.

The US will be adding 40 F-35A aircraft per year until 2019, and then 60 per year thereafter. The USMC and USN will also be adding aircraft each year.

China has nine (maybe more) prototype or LRIP 5th generation aircraft still testing.

Russia has five prototype 5th generation aircraft still testing
 
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YF-22 Skids For A Mile Due To Software Error

Test Pilots Are The Bravest Out There!

In 1981, the United States Air Force pitched a need for an Advanced Tactical Fighter in order to replace the F-15s and F-16s and establish a new air superiority fighter. Six years later, the YF-22 was up in the skies showing what it could do.

As of this writing, there were 195 Raptors produced including the testing prototypes.

The YF-22 was the prototype that Lockheed came up with. Full of stealth technology and high-tech features, this great looking plane was a thing of the future. It was also extremely dependent on software which ran the whole system as you can imagine, which is what went wrong during the test you’re about to see.

While testing the second prototype in April of 1992, the plane completely took over and the test pilot could do nothing. While approaching the ground, Tom Morgenfeld felt like the plane was dipping so he compensated for it. The computer then took over and you’ll see how that went in the video. That shot from the back was pretty great, as it showed exactly how out of control the elevators were.

 
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