An F-22 Demonstration Team Raptor flies over Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., March 3, 2023. Update: As of this morning there have been other interpretations of Andrew Hunter’s comments. The F-22 ...
, was conceived in the mid-1990s amidst uncertainty about future threats. Despite the Cold War's end, the U.S. Air Force sought a replacement for the F-15 with advanced stealth, speed, and ...
Key Points - President Trump's recent, somewhat confusing, remarks in Doha (May 15th) about potential new "F-22 Super" and "F-55" (a twin-engine F-35 "super upgrade") fighter programs are not entirely ...
As the first of this new generation, the Raptor featured a combination of stealth and speed that had never been seen before While there have been new additions to the fifth generation, the F-22 is the ...
The latest 5th-generation fighter aircraft are the most advanced and formidable the skies have ever seen. The specific models released by the U.S., Russia, and China all share some similarities that ...
The Air Force wants to give nearly three dozen F-22 Raptors an early retirement in order to reallocate budget dollars toward the stealth fighter’s future replacement, per its 2024 budget request. The ...
What You Need to Know: In the 1980s, the U.S. Air Force launched the Advanced Tactical Fighter program to develop a next-generation stealth aircraft superior to the F-15 and F-16, aiming to counter ...
Looking back at its first combat operations against ISIS, the F-22 proved it could do much more than dominate the skies, delivering precision strikes and sharing critical data with allied platforms ...
The F-22 Raptor is a unique fighter jet in many respects. It's a rare model that boasts the ability to supercruise, or achieve speeds in excess of Mach 1 without needing to engage its afterburners.
If you're interested in how to get health-care costs under control, the case of the F-22 offers an instructive example. Huh, you say? What does a fighter jet have to do with health care? Nothing, of ...
With the Next-Generation Air Dominance endeavor paused, the Raptor might be here to stay. While the reign of the American-made F-22 Raptor was suspected to be winding down, new upgrades being ...
The US Air Force (USAF) has successfully paired one its Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighters with an uncrewed jet in a demonstration flight. The unmanned platform was a General Atomics ...