I live under a MOA and seeing these bad baby's do 2v2's are such a treat to watch. It's like having an air show in my own backyard. Glad they don't go supersonic around here anymore. Still have a taped up window and some foundation cracks in the house. Love the Raptor tho. USA, USA!
in the early 90's i co-owned a high-end computer graphics company in Atlanta. two of our specialties were rendering animations out to film up to 16K rez or outputting to museum-quality 36"x48" prints. One of our clients was Lockheed's Skunkworks team in Atlanta. After security clearance was obtained for myself and 2 others on staff and passing a vigorous vender process, we developed a great relationship with the 3D visualization team at Lockheed as they became one of our larger clients. (we could only work on their stuff after hours with only the 3 of us seeing or touching their work. made for many very late nights/early mornings) When we entered their studio red siren-type lights would turn on throughout the studio, their work had to cease and monitors turned off. Many great stories, but this one i'll get to the point - they walked us to a hangar one day and showed us THE YF-22 prototype. I say "THE" because we were told that originally there were two, but one crashed. We were looking at the only F-22 on the planet. I remember thinking at the time that it looked so Small. THAT was a very cool day. One for the books.
@@TheARguy15 it takes so long to develop an aircraft that by the time the current aircraft in development are finished there is already better technology available.
F-22 is such a great plane, but just so expensive, and never reached scale. We build this apex predator, then realized there wasn’t a mission for it anymore. Nearly 20 years in service, and has no equal. I’m glad we still have it. I can see why we never marketed it abroad. It was simply too advanced to share. There’s something special inside this plane.
We let the war on terror distract us from the countries that are truly a threat such as China and Russia. We switched from fighting near peer adversaries to fighting guerrilla warfare. We definitely should have built more F-22s
Yet, we are selling the F-35 abroad, which is even more advanced, in overall capabilities, than the F-22. You don't have to offer every bell and whistle the F-22 has when you sell it internationally. We sure don't with any other fighter including the F-35. As far as your claims that there are no missions for the F-22, that's not entirely accurate. You don't have to engage in active wars to have a platform that serves multiple vital purposes.
@@digitalfilmjat6534 It’s pretty much an air-to-air superiority fighter for a peer power. It’s not really a multi-role fighter. And that’s the problem. As a Lockheed pilot put it, “for anything else BUT A2A, the F-35 beats it.” As we were making the plane, we figured out that no other power, (namely the Soviet Union/Russia) was even close to the F-22, so it ended up being insanely expensive for a small batch of planes. But, I’m sure the F-22 still has some secrets that not even the F-35 has… For most A2A duties, like scrambling, or non-stealth, etc, an F-15 is better equipped, and *way* less risky. As fighters become more networked, the F-22 becomes less of a fighter, and more of a spotter.
Well since the soviet union collapsed they would have no reason to build em and if they did they would go bankrupt but I'd love to see the new 6th generation fighter in action
600 flying around like the rest of the posing toy box doing f**k all ? While the Ukrainians get the shit kicked out of them ? But we can't use them for the purpose they were designed for ? Oh no ! Somebody might shoot at them ?
@@THEREAL1DANNYBEACH actually they can’t. They did a feasibility study on just that and determined it wouldn’t be worth the cost to retool another assembly line and moved on to the next generation.
Saw an f22 at an air show yesterday and it hung in the air stationairy in the straight up position and hovered there as if it were a Helicoptor and slowly slide down backwards only to ascend again and regain a straight position. It was incredible. It was awesome to watch. Also watched two f22 Escort a p51 mustang for the first time in history ever and do some fly-bys for photos
I first saw the F35 do that, then the fillowing year an F22. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was crazy to see the enemy jet in Maverick do the same thing, but from that perspective. It's wild!
Back in WW2 we were interested in putting enough planes in the air that the enemy couldn't shoot them all down. In Korea and Vietnam we were going for air superiority. We wanted our planes to be better than theirs, with a kill ratio to prove it. Then there was the F-15. Now we wanted air supremacy. We wanted to have the meanest planes in the sky. The F-22 is an air dominance fighter. Superiority and supremacy are no longer enough. We want to own the skies. If something is flying at all, anywhere near an F-22, it's only because we allow it to exist. Meanwhile, there are other advancements like force multipliers that increase the lethality of our aircraft. In WW2 it took the bombs from several bombers to take out one bridge. Around the time of Vietnam, we reduced that to one plane destroying a bridge. By Desert Storm (30+ years ago!) we inverted it so one plane could destroy several bridges.
Japan really wanted it because they don't give a shit about ground attack capacity so the F35 is a downgrade in most respects. They wanted the absolute best air superiority aircraft to deter China in the south islands of Japan and were willing to pay for it. But, we said no and now they're developing their own next gen aircraft with help from lockheed etc. so it's in the past.
Japan was negotiating a “Blank check” to America for the 22 Raptor!! Potentially Trillions if rumors are true… The Pentagon still said nope!! Wise decision…
@@tonymorris4335 word is that Japan is just continuing the f23, which, from all accounts, was a better plane than the f22, so they should have a much shorter development cycle.
I just recently learned the NGAD program doesn't have the goal of creating a 6th-gen fighter. It has the goal of creating a system where industry can create 6th-gen fighters. Here's the difference. Instead of spending 2 trillion on 1000 F-35's which will have a limited shelf life, we get a benchmark for allowing us to quickly produce 50 fighter jets within a year or two, as needed, which will all use the latest tech. I'm going to compare this to an early US Navy contract to build cannons or something. The company came back with only two of the thing. George Washington was confused as to why they only got two of them for all the money they spent on it. The guy who owned the company said there was a problem making so many, so instead he came up with the concept of interchangeable parts. He then took parts off one of them and replaced them on the other. Up until then, such a thing was impossible, since all ships and ship parts were custom built. Washington immediately saw the practicality of such a system and it became an enormous boon to technology. The NGAD is a concept for quickly cranking out weapons without 10-20 years of acquisition effort to get something in the air.
I had heard that it would not be practical to upgrade the F- 22's software and enormously expensive. I would be GLAD to be wrong and joyous to hear this beloved plane will be kept close to home as extra special.
Interesting. That makes more sense than locking into a single type. Building the infrastructure to build new planes on the fly as needed to incorporate newer technologies sounds smart.
@@corinnem.239 Here is the thing with these current fighters. Esp 5th gen +. Almost every aspect of the projects are highly classified. You can't even get information on the Super Hornet that is accurate. I fly a combat simulator and most of the fighter pilots that are either ex or current pilots still will only release information that is available to the pubic. There are things that are missing in the F-18C BlockII that are always asked and since those systems still exist in the Super Hornet they are still classified and can not be implemented in the simulation. Same goes with missles. The AIM-120c is available to use with a flight models, and range that are somewhat guessed. They are informed guesses of lots of available information but none that is actually from the manufacturers or the military themselves. This would obviously create a big problem if the enemy had performance information on your weapons and flight models. We won't get any real information without speculation for 20+ more years. Things like the F-16, F-18, etc are all sold internationally to allies, they are basic stripped down versions that can be modified to a countries needs barring US classified technology. It's up to them to implement their own.. but that is how you get flight models, etc etc.
What is your source for stating that the NGAD's goal does NOT include actually building at least a small quantity of them? Waiting until a conflict arises to begin building ~50 for delivery a year or two later does not sound like a viable solution for fast developing conflicts
The F-22 is such a beautiful looking aircraft. Even when looking at it head on, the wings kinda curve down a bit resembling an actual bird's wings in flight.
@@mytech6779 as the F14 isn't in service this is immaterial. Its the current fleet which is of any note, and the F-22 eats into the budget at an astronomical rate
That Popular Mechanics magazine was the first time I saw the F-22, right there on the cover. It was a cover story about the fly off between the YF-22 and the YF-23. I think the edition of the magazine was early to mid 1990. I was on a trip during spring break at the time and bought it in a gas station.
F-14 (or next gen F-21), A-10 (or next gen A-10), and F-22 are all tied as favorites for me. Been loving on these sexy beasts since I could comprehend thought.
@@BadWolf1958 he also killed a bunch of people with drones🤣. He will probably go down in history as the drone president, reminds me of that dick head from the movie Stealth who wanted to replace all the pilots with drones, similar character to the dude in the new top gun movie. I personally think drones should only accompany planes with actual pilots. It's to hands off to just have some virgin sitting in joe biden's basement flying a drone with a Xbox controller dropping Bombs on real people across the world
On the subject of drones, weird story, when I was a kid back in the late 90s before drones were really a thing my mom saw me playing red alert and said she had a dream that one day people would be fighting wars with a video game. Instead of sending out human soldiers have robot soldiers that you can control with a computer (basically drones) , too bad she isn't alive to see it become reality, it's not quite as harmless as she thought it would be though
Imagine F22 was designed in the early 90s, and was so overpowered that the world recognizes it the first 5th gen fighter. Now 3 decades have passed, it is still so overpowered and may set to become the 6th gen. Implying this masterpiece was designed by people from the distance future.
actually well if u talk about "under development" design, its way before that. but in real time mass produced it was on 96, so it was more than 3 decades lol.
considering how old the f-22 actually is i'm almost completely sure the 6th gen fighter is already flying next to F-22's and F-35's just wait a few years and we'll see it by the time the 7th gen is being talked about.
the crazy thing is, we'll have an operational 6th gen fighter soon, if not already like you stated, and no other country has any real operational 5th gen fighter yet. Everyone is so far behind.
At 8:09, surely you mean "updated" F-22s, not "new." There will be no new Raptors. The last one came off the assembly line in 2011, with less than 200 made. The factories where they were made have since been repurposed. It makes sense to use some F-22s as test beds for NGAD technologies, and undoubtedly some advances will make it to airframes in service, but don't expect some Super Raptors to come out of it, it just isn't cost effective.
In my humble opinion we already made the six generation fighter and That honor goes to the YF 23 Black widow 2 and the people that brought that masterpiece to fruition… Thank you for your contribution and dedication ….keep on rockin
yeah right. i'll believe that when i see it. i figure that it's just a matter of time before traitor joe and his cronies give it to china for their building pleasure. he's probably just giving them time to fully investigate the $85 or so billion in equipment that they received via afghanistan.
I'm sitting in my office early in the morning a few years ago and all of a sudden - It sounded like the sky was falling on me. I never heard a sound that loud ! I run outside and I see the F-22 taking to the air like a rocket straight up in the atmosphere. He got to a certain height and then did a roll and shot off into forever !!! Man O Man ! No wonder why they call it "Shock and awe !!!" I could never imagine a half dozen of these fighter jets flying over my town ! I would have a shit for myself !
i'm pretty sure the f-22 is reflective like that not because of a new coating or anything, but because that's the skin of the aircraft without any coating, they removed the old coating for some maintenance and to apply a new coating (which probably looks a lot like the old one).
We don't have enough of them. The Air Force was very short sighted (as usual) when it came to the Raptor. The F35 is a good plane but not in the same league of the F22.
The Air Force wanted 700+ of them. The political leadership reduced the numbers. At that time, it wasn't a completely unreasonable decision. To say it was shortsighted could possibly true, but it wasn't the Air Force that was short sighted.
Im inclined to agree, however we should probably leave all the cutting edge technology to the experts, cause it's obvious those are the brains behind this marvel of technology.
Those rear elevators/flaperons etc are huge! Along with its big rudders the control surfaces on the Raptor are such clever pieces of kit. Imagine the actuator power needed to move those large surfaces at high speed and G loading. It's such an impressive beast. The performance of the new AIM 260 will be very interesting to say the least. I suspect the "Slammer" is back and it's not taking any prisoners or signing any autographs.
the elevators are likely hydralic because of the force needed to move them under such high load. i could be wrong but whoever wrote the software for that jet did a wonderful job. though I still wihs i could see the f-23 flying.
They are doing exactly what I said to do with the F-22 when the USAF wanted to get rid if that platform and make the F-35 the go-to; do-all fighter, close air support dominant aircraft in the world today. I don't know what the Joint-Chiefs were smoking and drinking at the time but when in history has it been a good idea to place such confidence and reliance on one such military platform!? Now I see the Raptor getting the upgrades and respect it deserves!
The F-35 is a strike-fighter while the F-22 is an air superiority fighter, both have different roles in the tactical space. F-35 was never meant or even considered as a successor to the F-22. The successor to the F-22 is NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance), the upgrades for the F-22 are meant to keep it up-to-date until NGAD arrives.
There is a solid reason we stopped working and producing this amazing aircraft. We were already decades beyond our adverse reaction. They just now think they can scrape together a 5th Gen fighter that even scratched the surfaces of what the Raptor could do. We hold the technology to say okay and forget. That was a decade ago. The Raptor still is the best fighter strike bomber ever made. And we're still developing it. We let the F35 happen because it's cheaper.
i think the new f22 "Super Raptor" classified as a 6th gen jet fighter is spot on. it'll be the standard/benchmark for all other future American aviation weapons systems. Honestly i believe it should be called....dun dun dun "The IndoRaptor" 😂
the Wingman/buddy system and LREW/AIM-260 missile (extreme range BVR missile) goes back to the development of the F-35 back then the "experts" justified the F-35 lack of room for weaponry with the idea that it could work in tandem with a older non-stealthy aircraft (F-18 for the Navy, B-1 for the Airforce), flying 60+ miles behind it, marking targets and guiding those extended range BVR missiles carried by those aircraft
We attended an Air Show in W.NY this past weekend where THIS 'BEAST' was thee Grand Finale. And as I was trying to Record it on my Canon EOS, I caught myself 'LAUGHING OUT LOUD'🤣 w/Delight!!!!....and WELL WORTH It!!!!! My wife and I agreed that we're GLAD 'That 'IT'S' on Our Side😎
It's being prepared for 3 main AA projects. AIM-260, also Peregrine which is a mini AMRAAM with a similar range but can carry twice as many, and the "modular" missile system. It's going to feature range choices, radar or IR, laser tracking seeker heads, or a combo of all. For A/G there's Stormbreaker and LRASM.
I like how people speak loudly when it comes to the f22 being used as a test ground for the ngad instead of the f35. They don’t understand that the f22 is a superiority jet while the f35 is not which means it’s in the same class as the ngad as well as an f15
It may or may not be being used as a test bed just like the f-35 could in theory be testing different sensor configurations. The F-22 is an air superiority fighter in the truest sense of the word but the F-35 could be considered just as superior as in its lethality as the F-22 it just accomplishes it in a different way. But at the end of the day a W is a W
@@arkadious9320 I wouldn’t necessarily call the f35 Lethal, it’s technological advancements just provide it with more awareness and survivability. It’s just harder to combat a fighter that is literally multiple steps ahead of a situation before they are even visible. It’s also very hard to believe that the ngad will be cheaper than the f22 if you’re trying to create something that will surpass the current top dog fighter without a raise in cost seems very unrealistic.
@@JLotG that is WHY the f35 is lethal. If you can see and get a lock on a plane that can't see you, and send 2 missiles that way...from MILES OUT... There is no need for a dogfight. You have superiority nonetheless. And we don't have to worry about the f22 essentially being "more lethal" in a 1v1. As, we are the only ones that have f22s.
For me it's still one of the most stunning aircraft of its generation. Absolutely beautiful. You would think by now tho our closest ally would have dropped one off with the RAF 😉
@@kinocchio the US hasn’t been at war with those in the last 2 decades….and no one they were at war with put up any substantial resistance to their air power
INCORRECT: "...to field a weapon that is at least 2 decades OLDER than it..." CORRECT: "...to field a weapon that is at least 2 decades LATER than it..."
This is a really cool video but the reason they are using the F-22 raptor for the ngat program is not because the f-35 is not capable you have 35 is a multi-roll fighter and it will be in service for a long time they are trying to replace the F-16 F-150 the nged is not meant to replace the f-35
I thinks it's safe to say the engineers who developed this plane got a little carried away. A plane so dangerous they banned it from being sold to allied countries. If that's not bad ass then what is???
@@dannyelam1631 Yes production was halted. There are less than 200 Raptors, which was less than what the USAF had planned. So the reason the USAF does not even sell it to allied countries is because the USAF do not even have enough for themselves.
7:20 Pilons ejection is same as used in R7 (1956) and Soyuz rockets of USSR. So it may be named "widely used tech" instead of "not available for Russia and China unique tech".
Typical. Reminds me of the cpu market. Innovation declines and we get a trivial upgrade as "next gen." Also when you flip people off, do you do it with an f22 or a b1?
F22 is the GOAT. Makes me proud to be an American
It ain’t the bird.....it’s the pilot!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
worst nation on the world. creating wars so they can sell their weapons. i’m from Romania 🇷🇴. i know what im talking about!
@@dmx0104 cry harder. its fuel for the F-22
@@optimusprimus89 u will cry soon
@ruff Dmx sorry can't understand over all this freedom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅
I live under a MOA and seeing these bad baby's do 2v2's are such a treat to watch. It's like having an air show in my own backyard. Glad they don't go supersonic around here anymore. Still have a taped up window and some foundation cracks in the house. Love the Raptor tho. USA, USA!
When my daughter was stationed at Nellis I used to love sitting in her backyard and watch these fly overhead!
l love F22 rapptor after upgrade . Good airplane for USA army .❤😊
in the early 90's i co-owned a high-end computer graphics company in Atlanta. two of our specialties were rendering animations out to film up to 16K rez or outputting to museum-quality 36"x48" prints. One of our clients was Lockheed's Skunkworks team in Atlanta. After security clearance was obtained for myself and 2 others on staff and passing a vigorous vender process, we developed a great relationship with the 3D visualization team at Lockheed as they became one of our larger clients. (we could only work on their stuff after hours with only the 3 of us seeing or touching their work. made for many very late nights/early mornings) When we entered their studio red siren-type lights would turn on throughout the studio, their work had to cease and monitors turned off. Many great stories, but this one i'll get to the point - they walked us to a hangar one day and showed us THE YF-22 prototype. I say "THE" because we were told that originally there were two, but one crashed. We were looking at the only F-22 on the planet. I remember thinking at the time that it looked so Small. THAT was a very cool day. One for the books.
SHOWING ONCE AGAIN THE MILITARY TECH IS 30 YEARS AHEAD OF WHAT WE ACTUALLY SEE TODAY, AT LEAST.
Was stationed at NAS Atlanta ( Marietta) 1991-1994, and got to get w/in 50 feet of one at a hangar! LOVED Hotlanta!
@@TheARguy15 it takes so long to develop an aircraft that by the time the current aircraft in development are finished there is already better technology available.
Don't believe a word of it.
@@johnwilsdon5456 haha...all those words i typed and you don't believe one? and that's perfectly fine, good sir.
F-22 is such a great plane, but just so expensive, and never reached scale. We build this apex predator, then realized there wasn’t a mission for it anymore. Nearly 20 years in service, and has no equal. I’m glad we still have it. I can see why we never marketed it abroad. It was simply too advanced to share. There’s something special inside this plane.
We let the war on terror distract us from the countries that are truly a threat such as China and Russia. We switched from fighting near peer adversaries to fighting guerrilla warfare. We definitely should have built more F-22s
Yet, we are selling the F-35 abroad, which is even more advanced, in overall capabilities, than the F-22. You don't have to offer every bell and whistle the F-22 has when you sell it internationally. We sure don't with any other fighter including the F-35. As far as your claims that there are no missions for the F-22, that's not entirely accurate. You don't have to engage in active wars to have a platform that serves multiple vital purposes.
Maybe it not being needed is because we built it .
@@jamesweinzierl7399 It may have contributed, for sure!
@@digitalfilmjat6534 It’s pretty much an air-to-air superiority fighter for a peer power. It’s not really a multi-role fighter. And that’s the problem. As a Lockheed pilot put it, “for anything else BUT A2A, the F-35 beats it.” As we were making the plane, we figured out that no other power, (namely the Soviet Union/Russia) was even close to the F-22, so it ended up being insanely expensive for a small batch of planes. But, I’m sure the F-22 still has some secrets that not even the F-35 has…
For most A2A duties, like scrambling, or non-stealth, etc, an F-15 is better equipped, and *way* less risky. As fighters become more networked, the F-22 becomes less of a fighter, and more of a spotter.
It's an absolute shame they didn't build 600 of the f-22 like they were supposed too. The air force is still off balance today in these crazy times.
Well since the soviet union collapsed they would have no reason to build em and if they did they would go bankrupt but I'd love to see the new 6th generation fighter in action
@@slycer876 oh don't worry. We spent the money on other things. Have u seen what we owe. Just don't have anything to show for it.
600 flying around like the rest of the posing toy box doing f**k all ? While the Ukrainians get the shit kicked out of them ? But we can't use them for the purpose they were designed for ? Oh no ! Somebody might shoot at them ?
They can build them anytime they want
@@THEREAL1DANNYBEACH actually they can’t. They did a feasibility study on just that and determined it wouldn’t be worth the cost to retool another assembly line and moved on to the next generation.
Oh, F-22 Raptor (Upgrade)...You had me at 'Hello'.
The best demo at any air show is the F-22 doing what it can do. It's awesome.
Saw an f22 at an air show yesterday and it hung in the air stationairy in the straight up position and hovered there as if it were a Helicoptor and slowly slide down backwards only to ascend again and regain a straight position. It was incredible. It was awesome to watch. Also watched two f22 Escort a p51 mustang for the first time in history ever and do some fly-bys for photos
I first saw the F35 do that, then the fillowing year an F22. I couldn't believe my eyes.
It was crazy to see the enemy jet in Maverick do the same thing, but from that perspective. It's wild!
Look up Heritage Flights in Tucson. There are all kinds of photos of our 5th Gens flying with our older birds. Its awesome!
We had an f22 escort a p51 at our airshow a year and a half ago in Kentucky.
@@bernardberben4852 Saw the same thing here in Tennessee a month ago!
@@BagelSammich it was pretty cool. Was it the f22 demonstration team?
The fact that it's classified to show its true capabilities is awesome and truly a marvel of American ingenuity
What sets America ahead of everybody else is the ingenuity, scale of deployment and the constant desire to push ahead and build new things.
Enjoyed your video and so I gave it a Thumbs Up
I see these flying everyday. Thank God they are on our side.
You stay by Eglin AFB ?
Back in WW2 we were interested in putting enough planes in the air that the enemy couldn't shoot them all down.
In Korea and Vietnam we were going for air superiority. We wanted our planes to be better than theirs, with a kill ratio to prove it.
Then there was the F-15. Now we wanted air supremacy. We wanted to have the meanest planes in the sky.
The F-22 is an air dominance fighter. Superiority and supremacy are no longer enough. We want to own the skies. If something is flying at all, anywhere near an F-22, it's only because we allow it to exist.
Meanwhile, there are other advancements like force multipliers that increase the lethality of our aircraft.
In WW2 it took the bombs from several bombers to take out one bridge.
Around the time of Vietnam, we reduced that to one plane destroying a bridge.
By Desert Storm (30+ years ago!) we inverted it so one plane could destroy several bridges.
Tyndall Air Force Base was/is the F-22 training base. Panama City, FL.
i see them everyday also, flying high over alaska
you mean Lockheed/Martin
Great fighter jet and the most beatiful!
"too special to be shared" i would be shocked if anyone could afford to buy and maintain more than 3 of them anyway. what an incredible piece of kit
Japan really wanted it because they don't give a shit about ground attack capacity so the F35 is a downgrade in most respects. They wanted the absolute best air superiority aircraft to deter China in the south islands of Japan and were willing to pay for it. But, we said no and now they're developing their own next gen aircraft with help from lockheed etc. so it's in the past.
Japan was negotiating a “Blank check” to America for the 22 Raptor!!
Potentially Trillions if rumors are true…
The Pentagon still said nope!!
Wise decision…
UK or Saudi Arabia could definitely afford it.
@@Mizzle420420
UK has bought a few F35’s I think..
@@tonymorris4335 word is that Japan is just continuing the f23, which, from all accounts, was a better plane than the f22, so they should have a much shorter development cycle.
That silver reflective F-22 is actually really cool looking
Laser protection.
I just recently learned the NGAD program doesn't have the goal of creating a 6th-gen fighter. It has the goal of creating a system where industry can create 6th-gen fighters.
Here's the difference.
Instead of spending 2 trillion on 1000 F-35's which will have a limited shelf life, we get a benchmark for allowing us to quickly produce 50 fighter jets within a year or two, as needed, which will all use the latest tech.
I'm going to compare this to an early US Navy contract to build cannons or something. The company came back with only two of the thing. George Washington was confused as to why they only got two of them for all the money they spent on it.
The guy who owned the company said there was a problem making so many, so instead he came up with the concept of interchangeable parts. He then took parts off one of them and replaced them on the other. Up until then, such a thing was impossible, since all ships and ship parts were custom built.
Washington immediately saw the practicality of such a system and it became an enormous boon to technology.
The NGAD is a concept for quickly cranking out weapons without 10-20 years of acquisition effort to get something in the air.
I had heard that it would not be practical to upgrade the F- 22's software and enormously expensive.
I would be GLAD to be wrong and joyous to hear this beloved plane will be kept close to home as extra special.
Interesting. That makes more sense than locking into a single type. Building the infrastructure to build new planes on the fly as needed to incorporate newer technologies sounds smart.
@@corinnem.239 Here is the thing with these current fighters. Esp 5th gen +. Almost every aspect of the projects are highly classified. You can't even get information on the Super Hornet that is accurate. I fly a combat simulator and most of the fighter pilots that are either ex or current pilots still will only release information that is available to the pubic. There are things that are missing in the F-18C BlockII that are always asked and since those systems still exist in the Super Hornet they are still classified and can not be implemented in the simulation. Same goes with missles. The AIM-120c is available to use with a flight models, and range that are somewhat guessed. They are informed guesses of lots of available information but none that is actually from the manufacturers or the military themselves. This would obviously create a big problem if the enemy had performance information on your weapons and flight models. We won't get any real information without speculation for 20+ more years. Things like the F-16, F-18, etc are all sold internationally to allies, they are basic stripped down versions that can be modified to a countries needs barring US classified technology. It's up to them to implement their own.. but that is how you get flight models, etc etc.
The F-35 is not going to cost 2 trillion for 1000 aircraft.
What is your source for stating that the NGAD's goal does NOT include actually building at least a small quantity of them?
Waiting until a conflict arises to begin building ~50 for delivery a year or two later does not sound like a viable solution for fast developing conflicts
The Best fighter in the World as of Today!
The F-22 is such a beautiful looking aircraft. Even when looking at it head on, the wings kinda curve down a bit resembling an actual bird's wings in flight.
SU-57 is best looking fighter on the planet.
@@RKZX2 All subjective though and both are amazing and beautifully scary and capable aircraft.
Maintenance costs are astronomical on F-22. Hope that's one thing they're improving.
Worth it. Great plane!
Way lower than the F14
Production cost was high too. 1 unit of F-22 is already around 150 million dollars.
@@mytech6779 as the F14 isn't in service this is immaterial. Its the current fleet which is of any note, and the F-22 eats into the budget at an astronomical rate
@@dallasyap3064 You mean was. The last F-22 came off the assembly line in 2011. There will be no more made.
Oh, to be 30 years old and in the Air Force test pilot program!
So glad that they have decided to invest in The upgrade. Well done xx
And inertia dampeners too!!!! 😎
I think in the 90's I saw the F-22 on a magazine of popular mechanics, my dad was already a nut for jets. 30 sum years later it still awes me.
That Popular Mechanics magazine was the first time I saw the F-22, right there on the cover. It was a cover story about the fly off between the YF-22 and the YF-23. I think the edition of the magazine was early to mid 1990. I was on a trip during spring break at the time and bought it in a gas station.
@@ewraven3029 it was badass for the time...I thought it was a mock up or something but...its what it actually looked like. Terrifying in a way
Wow that is so not at all interesting in the least to anyone but you
The F22 has always been my favorite even when there are so many f35 fanitics I stick with the F22. I would so love to see it F someones day up.
A10 thunderbolt!!!!
F-14 (or next gen F-21), A-10 (or next gen A-10), and F-22 are all tied as favorites for me. Been loving on these sexy beasts since I could comprehend thought.
I also love the F22. Pissed me off big time when Obama killed production.
@@BadWolf1958 he also killed a bunch of people with drones🤣. He will probably go down in history as the drone president, reminds me of that dick head from the movie Stealth who wanted to replace all the pilots with drones, similar character to the dude in the new top gun movie. I personally think drones should only accompany planes with actual pilots. It's to hands off to just have some virgin sitting in joe biden's basement flying a drone with a Xbox controller dropping Bombs on real people across the world
On the subject of drones, weird story, when I was a kid back in the late 90s before drones were really a thing my mom saw me playing red alert and said she had a dream that one day people would be fighting wars with a video game. Instead of sending out human soldiers have robot soldiers that you can control with a computer (basically drones) , too bad she isn't alive to see it become reality, it's not quite as harmless as she thought it would be though
I always said when I first saw this beast that it will be the top dog for a long time.
FINALLY
The F-22 RAPTOR
IS NOW A PART OF
GI JOE SKY PATROL
F22 was already unmatched
I love F22 the best
Imagine F22 was designed in the early 90s, and was so overpowered that the world recognizes it the first 5th gen fighter.
Now 3 decades have passed, it is still so overpowered and may set to become the 6th gen.
Implying this masterpiece was designed by people from the distance future.
Designed in the early 90s? Try early 80s. First test flight was 1990.
@@joeg4707 That's absolutely bonkers
actually well if u talk about "under development" design, its way before that. but in real time mass produced it was on 96, so it was more than 3 decades lol.
total nonsense and conjecture but I guess you love to dream about things you know so little about
@@slowery43 F-22 was produced in 2005, and designed in the 90s.
I love the F22, best fighter jet ever built.
May God Bless our pilots and services!
Great info and video. Thank you Front Cost.
considering how old the f-22 actually is i'm almost completely sure the 6th gen fighter is already flying next to F-22's and F-35's just wait a few years and we'll see it by the time the 7th gen is being talked about.
they are already out. Does not need pilots.
AI flying it.
@@beba2893 🤔🤔🤔
Ya probably.
the crazy thing is, we'll have an operational 6th gen fighter soon, if not already like you stated, and no other country has any real operational 5th gen fighter yet. Everyone is so far behind.
At 8:09, surely you mean "updated" F-22s, not "new." There will be no new Raptors. The last one came off the assembly line in 2011, with less than 200 made. The factories where they were made have since been repurposed. It makes sense to use some F-22s as test beds for NGAD technologies, and undoubtedly some advances will make it to airframes in service, but don't expect some Super Raptors to come out of it, it just isn't cost effective.
That thing looks crazy with the coat
In my humble opinion we already made the six generation fighter and That honor goes to the YF 23 Black widow 2 and the people that brought that masterpiece to fruition… Thank you for your contribution and dedication ….keep on rockin
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the new generation is incredible!
Yeahhh guys sorry y’all can’t have this one 🇺🇸 Nice to see we keeping it in the family
yeah right. i'll believe that when i see it. i figure that it's just a matter of time before traitor joe and his cronies give it to china for their building pleasure. he's probably just giving them time to fully investigate the $85 or so billion in equipment that they received via afghanistan.
What are Russia and China thinking 🤣🤣🤣
I'm sitting in my office early in the morning a few years ago and all of a sudden - It sounded like the sky was falling on me. I never heard a sound that loud ! I run outside and I see the F-22 taking to the air like a rocket straight up in the atmosphere. He got to a certain height and then did a roll and shot off into forever !!! Man O Man ! No wonder why they call it "Shock and awe !!!" I could never imagine a half dozen of these fighter jets flying over my town ! I would have a shit for myself !
This is my favorite plane...
and now we have freaking companion drones!!!! ahead of the class!!! domination.
The fact that the technology has not been shared,. Accounts for the raptors longevity
It's technology has been shared in the f35
@@grandadmiralthrawn8116 some of it's tricks. Evidently not it's best
Shared or stolen!
@@RobertSmith-jd7yx all of them and more. F35 is the most advanced fighter in the world your own biases not withstanding
@@grandadmiralthrawn8116 yes the f35 is advanced and has some of the f22 tech in it, but aren't the f22 and f35 made for entirely different things?
“Technologies that no other country has access to“
Chinese hackers: hold my beer
its written all on paper and locked in a vault off world
i'm pretty sure the f-22 is reflective like that not because of a new coating or anything, but because that's the skin of the aircraft without any coating, they removed the old coating for some maintenance and to apply a new coating (which probably looks a lot like the old one).
Agreed. Reflective - seems like a generally BAD idea for avoiding radar, considering that's how radars work!
@@Cataclysm1 that too lol
Let me find out that a F-22 pilot can play Pacman on enemy radar. LMAOO.
We don't have enough of them. The Air Force was very short sighted (as usual) when it came to the Raptor. The F35 is a good plane but not in the same league of the F22.
The Air Force wanted 700+ of them. The political leadership reduced the numbers. At that time, it wasn't a completely unreasonable decision. To say it was shortsighted could possibly true, but it wasn't the Air Force that was short sighted.
Mav “What the……..”
Rooster “WTF was that!!!”
I'm really getting Ace Combat 7 vibes by those smart drag fuel tanks..
amazing F22 upgrade
The Raptor will be around for a long time. Great plane, and potential, it makes zero sense to even think about scrapping it already.
they haven't scrapped it, they stopped producing it because it is too expensive to maintain.
The Arsenal Bird is coming closer to fruition, yeeeaaahhh... wait, are we the baddies?
Not fair to call it a true 6th gen like in the beginning of the vid, it would be a 5.5 gen with full upgrades.
The aliens laugh at our earthly technology.🛸
Mounting externals completely undermines the design rationale and performance parameters of the F22
Im inclined to agree, however we should probably leave all the cutting edge technology to the experts, cause it's obvious those are the brains behind this marvel of technology.
It can already mount externals if it needs them. They are optional
The external mounting are optional, especially when stealth is not needed.
You can jettison external pylons when they are empty
The dark coating makes it look even cooler 😩
Those rear elevators/flaperons etc are huge! Along with its big rudders the control surfaces on the Raptor are such clever pieces of kit. Imagine the actuator power needed to move those large surfaces at high speed and G loading. It's such an impressive beast.
The performance of the new AIM 260 will be very interesting to say the least. I suspect the "Slammer" is back and it's not taking any prisoners or signing any autographs.
Someone should make a video acknowledging the development team that wrote the Flight Control System software that make the Raptor such an agile beast.
I thought the F-15E stab actuator was huge compared to the F-15A/B/C/D. Then I got to pull several from the 22... It's no joke of a ramrod.
@@KalebWR Interesting...you've actually worked on a Raptor?
If so, thanks for your comment...nice to hear from someone "in the know".
@@ramonpunsalang3397 I imgine the identities and expertise and education backgrounds of the dev team would be highly classified.
the elevators are likely hydralic because of the force needed to move them under such high load. i could be wrong but whoever wrote the software for that jet did a wonderful job. though I still wihs i could see the f-23 flying.
Usa 🇺🇸 💖💖❤💯
They are doing exactly what I said to do with the F-22 when the USAF wanted to get rid if that platform and make the F-35 the go-to; do-all fighter, close air support dominant aircraft in the world today. I don't know what the Joint-Chiefs were smoking and drinking at the time but when in history has it been a good idea to place such confidence and reliance on one such military platform!? Now I see the Raptor getting the upgrades and respect it deserves!
The F-35 is a strike-fighter while the F-22 is an air superiority fighter, both have different roles in the tactical space. F-35 was never meant or even considered as a successor to the F-22. The successor to the F-22 is NGAD (Next Generation Air Dominance), the upgrades for the F-22 are meant to keep it up-to-date until NGAD arrives.
If only we'd have listened to you. Oh well, at least you were right (on TH-cam).
There is a solid reason we stopped working and producing this amazing aircraft. We were already decades beyond our adverse reaction. They just now think they can scrape together a 5th Gen fighter that even scratched the surfaces of what the Raptor could do. We hold the technology to say okay and forget. That was a decade ago. The Raptor still is the best fighter strike bomber ever made. And we're still developing it. We let the F35 happen because it's cheaper.
i think the new f22 "Super Raptor" classified as a 6th gen jet fighter is spot on. it'll be the standard/benchmark for all other future American aviation weapons systems. Honestly i believe it should be called....dun dun dun "The IndoRaptor" 😂
lmao
Such a beauty
THE GREAT GREAT U.S.A. WE LOVE YOU!!
the Wingman/buddy system and LREW/AIM-260 missile (extreme range BVR missile) goes back to the development of the F-35
back then the "experts" justified the F-35 lack of room for weaponry with the idea that it could work in tandem with a older non-stealthy aircraft (F-18 for the Navy, B-1 for the Airforce), flying 60+ miles behind it, marking targets and guiding those extended range BVR missiles carried by those aircraft
We attended an Air Show in W.NY this past weekend where THIS 'BEAST' was thee Grand Finale. And as I was trying to Record it on my Canon EOS, I caught myself 'LAUGHING OUT LOUD'🤣 w/Delight!!!!....and WELL WORTH It!!!!! My wife and I agreed that we're GLAD 'That 'IT'S' on Our Side😎
Neither I nor anyone I know has a clue about military aircraft but I think I can honestly say that we're all shocked, deeply shocked, by this upgrade.
I wonder how the pilot program in the military is handling the 'equity' potent in their pilot selection.
When I washed my F-15 D it used a harsh "soap" to clean the entire airframe... what cleaners are used on F-22 that will not damage the SKIN ?
citrikleen
Turtle wax at the end.
Sounds like a spy.lol
Dawn
So, there's someone in another video reply about the Rafale F4 saying that the F22 is not superior to, what is your take on that?
It's being prepared for 3 main AA projects. AIM-260, also Peregrine which is a mini AMRAAM with a similar range but can carry twice as many, and the "modular" missile system. It's going to feature range choices, radar or IR, laser tracking seeker heads, or a combo of all. For A/G there's Stormbreaker and LRASM.
I saw five of these today. There are over 30 stationed about 20 miles from here.
DARN , WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PLANE ....A BEAST
I like how people speak loudly when it comes to the f22 being used as a test ground for the ngad instead of the f35. They don’t understand that the f22 is a superiority jet while the f35 is not which means it’s in the same class as the ngad as well as an f15
It may or may not be being used as a test bed just like the f-35 could in theory be testing different sensor configurations. The F-22 is an air superiority fighter in the truest sense of the word but the F-35 could be considered just as superior as in its lethality as the F-22 it just accomplishes it in a different way. But at the end of the day a W is a W
@@arkadious9320 I wouldn’t necessarily call the f35 Lethal, it’s technological advancements just provide it with more awareness and survivability. It’s just harder to combat a fighter that is literally multiple steps ahead of a situation before they are even visible. It’s also very hard to believe that the ngad will be cheaper than the f22 if you’re trying to create something that will surpass the current top dog fighter without a raise in cost seems very unrealistic.
@@JLotG thats a really roundabout way to try and give the f35 as little credit as possible.
@@JLotG that is WHY the f35 is lethal.
If you can see and get a lock on a plane that can't see you, and send 2 missiles that way...from MILES OUT...
There is no need for a dogfight. You have superiority nonetheless. And we don't have to worry about the f22 essentially being "more lethal" in a 1v1. As, we are the only ones that have f22s.
Could you please change the title of this vid to include F-22 Super Raptor😅✌
The f-22 is pretty much a 6 generation fighter it just needs a few upgrades.
Beautiful Plane 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
For me it's still one of the most stunning aircraft of its generation. Absolutely beautiful. You would think by now tho our closest ally would have dropped one off with the RAF 😉
Sick 😃😱
F22 haven’t yet been used in active war. I find that crazy.
Nothing to gain by using it. Any usage will provide adversaries with intel.
Which adversary would warrant using an air superiority fighter rather than a multi role fighter/fighter bomber like the F-35?
@@bosknight7837 China or Russia? In the future perhaps? I’m just curious to see how the f22 performs in real combat.
@@kinocchio the US hasn’t been at war with those in the last 2 decades….and no one they were at war with put up any substantial resistance to their air power
@@bosknight7837 The way things are going you will just have F-35s and low cost drones relaying targets back to F-15s with missiles.
Great mi G and sukoi destroyer. Shoot and skoot?
INCORRECT: "...to field a weapon that is at least 2 decades OLDER than it..."
CORRECT: "...to field a weapon that is at least 2 decades LATER than it..."
Sheeeshh keeping all the big toys
This is a really cool video but the reason they are using the F-22 raptor for the ngat program is not because the f-35 is not capable you have 35 is a multi-roll fighter and it will be in service for a long time they are trying to replace the F-16 F-150 the nged is not meant to replace the f-35
New F-22 Raptor very powerful..
I hope and pray our secrets are safe guarded!
Until they were found in Trumps golf course .....
Just because a country has the designs does not mean they can manufacture them at scale.
GOOD WORK RAPTOR, GOD BLESS ALL PEOPLE
I thinks it's safe to say the engineers who developed this plane got a little carried away. A plane so dangerous they banned it from being sold to allied countries. If that's not bad ass then what is???
Could be because the F22 program was canceled even before the US received all of the units.
Joe Biden is a secret weapon designed to destroy America.
@@dannyelam1631 Yes production was halted. There are less than 200 Raptors, which was less than what the USAF had planned. So the reason the USAF does not even sell it to allied countries is because the USAF do not even have enough for themselves.
Uh most war aircraft are restricted from foreign sales for a period of time. Once we have the next gen we will probably allow Lockheed to sell.
@@dallasyap3064 Not to forget the raptors that were also damaged in hurricane Michael.
im not scared of f 22 cuz i like it
If anyone is interested MIT has a hour long lecture on their TH-cam channel all about the F-22, flight systems, and controls.
Why is it a high caliber jet? How many kills versus enemies kills since its conception does it have?
7:20 Pilons ejection is same as used in R7 (1956) and Soyuz rockets of USSR. So it may be named "widely used tech" instead of "not available for Russia and China unique tech".
"Shocked the World"!!!!.....Jesus give me strength
Don’t let it fall into any other nation’s hands
China is probably trying to hack into the system and steal information about it
I don't understand most of the jargon, what I do know is that it is the most beautiful plane around
Typical. Reminds me of the cpu market. Innovation declines and we get a trivial upgrade as "next gen." Also when you flip people off, do you do it with an f22 or a b1?
Beautifull bird!
We need a new Tomcat! :)
It makes sense to upgrade them, but apparently, they were just too expensive to maintain, which I don't understand entirely why.
@@Alexander_MD That is why we need a new one! A digital monster F-14!! :D
What's the name of the music at 7:08
The coatings on the F-22 Raptors are also antennas for communications and data transfer including solid state radar and sensors.
I just watched Topgun Maverick and looking for it's behind the scene on youtube, and now my feed is mostly fighter jets and defence video 🤷🏽♂️