A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor has been recently ... and is planned to be carried in the F-22 weapons bay and on the F/A-18 at first, with the F-35 to follow. Flight tests are already in progress ...

The F-22, the first 5th generation air superiority fighter of the U.S. Air Force has recently reached the important milestone of 500,000 flight hours, more than 25 years after its introduction in ...

The F-22 Raptor is built by Lockheed Martin and is one of the most advanced fighter jets on the planet. However, it's easy to forget that this plane is nearly 30 years old with the first F-22 ...

The first flight of the Raptor was in 1997. Figure in four years to get it carrier-ready and the navy could have been in business with a stealth fighter by 2001, instead of waiting for the F-35C ...

Nearly 30 years since its first test flight in 1997, the Lockheed Martin-Boeing F-22 Raptor still looks like it came from the future. Sporting both a curved body and hard-edged angles as well as ...

It might just be this Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, the single-seat, twin-engine stealth fighter jet. "We are the first fifth-generation stealth fighter, and we are the crown jewel of air dominance ...

The Air Force signed off on Langley, which already hosts two F-22 combat squadrons, as the permanent site of F-22 flight training in 2021. Tyndall’s fleet of Raptor jets began moving to Virginia ...

The F-22 during a test flight with external AIM-120s in the early 2000s. (Image credit: U.S. Air Force) The F-22 upgrades. Some of the upgrades expected for the F-22 Raptor were unveiled in the ...