Tag: F-22

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st class Christian Mondeau, and Senior Airman Danelle Tubania, 154th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron crew chiefs, perform preflight checks on an F-22 Raptor.

US F-22 fighter jets had arrived in the United Arab Emirates during the weekend in fulfillment of Washington’s promises to the country that it would stand with them in the fight against Houthis.

Nothing is ever the same after Air Force mishaps strike. The aircrew, maintainers, and the command question their actions and look inward.

The USAF Weapons School, held twice a year at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, is grueling, demanding, and ultimately unforgiving.

The F-22 Raptor is both a beauty and a technological marvel. Here are three things you might not know about it.

Will the very specialized and sleek millennial or the well-rounded Gen Z celebrity kid come out on top in this F-22 vs F-35 fight?

In this article we revisit whether Russian and Chinese stealth fighters really live up to their name.

For a short time in the 1990s, the YF-22 that would lead to the operational F-22 may have met its match in the form of Northrop’s YF-23

This article was written by Alex Hollings and originally published on Sandboxx.com. The United States Air Force says they intend to pit an artificial intelligence-enabled drone against a manned fighter jet in a dogfight as soon as next year. Although drones have become an essential part of America’s air power apparatus, these platforms have long […]

In the first reported total loss of one of Russia’s exceedingly rare fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57 “stealth” fighters, one of the jets crashed approximately 68 miles from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant in Russia, where it was likely built. The pilot ejected from the aircraft safely and was recovered soon after the incident by Russian military MI-8 […]

The legendary F-117 Nighthawk, sometimes referred to colloquially as the “Stealth Fighter,” may have formally retired in 2008, but sightings of the angular-angel have persisted for years in the skies above America’s southwest. This culminated recently in a series of new sightings near the infamous airstrip of “Area 51,” located in the dry bed that […]

The United States introduced the world to the concept of stealth-integrated “fifth-generation” fighters decades ago when the first F-22 Raptors took to the sky. Since then the U.S. has remained at the forefront of this new generation of fighter, but efforts from both Russia and China to close this capability gap have resulted in a […]