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B-2 Spirits flew in support of Operation Epic Fury and the air campaign against Iran. In July, two of them deployed from Whiteman Air...
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B-2 Spirits flew in support of Operation Epic Fury and the air campaign against Iran. In July, two of them deployed from Whiteman Air...
The F-22 Raptor entered operational service in 2005, designed to destroy advanced Soviet fighters beyond visual range. It went nearly eighteen years without an...
The F-22 was designed to defeat Soviet fighters, but the Soviet Union collapsed before production began. Cost growth, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
"There is no substitute for a fifth-generation fighter," said retired Col. J.V. Venable of the Mitchell Institute. "It is a complete package of collection,...
The Air Force originally planned 381 F-22 Raptors. Production ended at 187 after the 2009 cancellation, and attrition has since reduced the fleet to...
Shutting down F-22 production made every remaining Raptor more expensive. Without a continuing line the program lost its economies of scale, spare parts stopped...
The last operational F-22 left Lockheed Martin's Marietta plant in December 2011, ending a run of 187 fighters against a requirement the Air Force...
The F-22 was supposed to fade quietly into the F-47's shadow. Instead a photographer caught one over the Mojave wearing its successor's technology, the...
The F-22 Raptor is famous for stealth, speed, and air dominance, but keeping its low-observable coatings ready takes constant work. Official reports show that...
The MiG 1.44 was meant to be the Soviet Union's F-22 — a supercruising, internally-armed fighter to dominate 21st-century air combat. Instead it became...