F-22 Raptor Thread

Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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I guess it's important Lockheed Gets $536 Million for F-22 Sustainment
11/17/2016
The Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $536 million contract modification for sustainment services on the F-22 Raptor fifth-generation fighter jet,
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. The funding is connected to a Performance-Based Logistics contract, which provides overall sustainment for F-22 weapons systems at US bases globally for 2017. The F-22 made its
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against ISIS in 2015 and deployed to Europe for the first time the same year as part of the United States’ effort to assure allies wary of Russian aggression in the region.
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source is AirForceMag
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Jura The idiot

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found in Twitter "Just two years after the U.S. Air Force’s F-22 stealth fighter made its combat debut in the skies above Syria, maintainers are tackling an issue with the fleet’s stealth coating that, if left untreated, could cause the radar-evading material to peel off the aircraft. Operators are beginning to see “wrinkles” in the low-observable (LO) coating that renders Lockheed Martin’s F-22 almost invisible to enemy radar. As the 1990s-era air superiority fighter ages, the ..."
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U.S. Air Force Tackles Repair To F-22 Stealth Coating
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FORBIN

FORBIN

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Jeff Head said:
The Advanced F/A-18 is the closest...and it is not close enough.

Open up a YF-23 line! do it! OF course, that's not Boeing, he'd need to talk to Northrop-Gruman..
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Long time... but some says YF-23 except for agility better than F-22 a bit more stealth, range for weapons load more difficult coz pics with show AIM-120A and after for F-22 can have 6 LR AAMs internaly the AIM-120C was built initialy F-22 can host only 4 AIM-120A with wings more large of 8 cm 53 vs 45 cm same lentgh, same diameter.

Can be interesting but for conversations better going on
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/f-22-raptor-thread.t6557/page-87#post-429009
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