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F-22s, B-2s fly together over Pacific Ocean
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam: Twelve F-22 Raptors departed here recently following a deployment marking the first time F-22 Raptors and B-2 Spirits, the key national strategic stealth assets in the Air Force inventory, deployed together outside the continental United States. The Raptors arrived in January and were joined by the B-2s in February as [...]
F-22 Exchange Pilot Helps Strengthen US, Australian Ties
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, Guam: A Royal Australian Air Force pilot assigned to the 90th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron has had the opportunity to fly the Air Force’s premier fighter, the F-22 Raptor, as part of a foreign pilot exchange program. Squadron Leader Matthew Harper is an F-22 instructor pilot and the 90th EFS flight commander [...]
Center Team Works to Connect New Fighters, Bomber
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass: An airborne networking team here is working to connect low-observable aircraft such as the F-22 Raptor, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Lightning II and B-2 Spirit with each other, and with the rest of the force. These aircraft rely on a number of technological advantages to defeat adversaries and accomplish their [...]
Moving beyond the F-22
WASHINGTON: This op-ed piece appeared in the Washington Post on April 13, written by Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz. The debate over whether to continue production of the F-22 Raptor has been one of the most politically charged and controversial budget issues in recent [...]
How Many F-22s Does the Air Force Need?
While we’re excited by Defense Secretary Gates’s decision to halt production of the F-22 at 187 planes, there is a lot of disbelief and confusion surrounding this decision. The confusion started as soon as the decision was announced, when Tony Capaccio at Bloomberg News asked Gates about it: Q: The F-22 decision is going to [...]
TCS on Gates Defense Budget Cuts
The boom finally lowered on the Pentagon’s budget today, with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealing the major weapons cuts contained in the 2010 federal budget. Many of these cuts echo those that TCS has plugged for years, and we applaud his rigor in wielding the budget axe. Gates reportedly decided to preview his decisions [...]
F-22A Raptor
Introduction The F-22A Raptor is the Air Force’s newest fighter aircraft. Its combination of stealth, supercruise, maneuverability, and integrated avionics, coupled with improved supportability, represents an exponential leap in warfighting capabilities. The F-22A Raptor performs both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions allowing full realization of operational concepts vital to the 21st century Air Force. The F-22A [...]
Comparison of modern fighter aircraft
This article attempts to compare the combat performance of fighter aircraft of the early 21st century. Specifically, it compares their capabilities as air superiority fighters, that is, fighting other fighter aircraft, which is generally a harder task than shooting down aircraft which are not fighters. In general, because of the lack of reliable information about [...]
