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The Air Force appears to have changed its mind about retiring the F-22 Raptor fighter. The service had originally planned to begin removing older jets from service in 2030, in preparation for the ...

The F-22 Raptor is still the best pure fighter aircraft in the world, but its service window is closing. The Air Force is looking to replace the Raptor in 2030 with the F-35 and the Pentagon’s ...

“Sometime between 2025 and 2030 we’re going to have to take a serious look at the supportability of some of the systems onboard the Raptor and upgrading those,” Tom McIntyre, a program ...

“By about the 2030 timeframe, you’re talking about a 40-year-old platform [in the F-22], and it’s just not going to be the right tool for the job, especially when we’re talking about ...

The Raptor’s airframe is incredibly robust due to the Air Force’s ... for the F-22 to keep it operationally relevant for obtaining and maintaining air superiority between now and 2030. ...

A ‘5.5 generation Super Raptor’, based on an evolution of the F-22 design concept or of the F-35 once the latter has matured in service, is a more likely prospect than operational sixth-generation ...