Clipping the F-22’s wings not only weakens America, but incurs the massive financial and strategic costs involved with ...

The F-22 Raptor ensures it's still relevant by improving upon its previous longest shot made. Here's how it happened and how ...

Can the U.S. Air Force’s most valued air-dominance fighter suddenly see its combat strength jump? Lockheed Martin thinks so, and the plan depends on salvaging 35 older Block 20 F-22 Raptors from the ...

The pod has reportedly undergone testing in the NTTR with the NT-43 aircraft used to validate low observable technology. Few months after the first sighting of the new stealth external fuel tanks for ...

Summary and Key Points: As global threats rise, the U.S. Air Force is upgrading its fleet of 186 F-22 Raptors to maintain air dominance, but a more pressing issue remains: limited numbers. -With China ...

In retrospect, the ND-102 was too much for the Germans to handle. Yet the lessons learned from this program influenced some of America’s most important warplanes of the last 30 years. It is the ...

No accolade could better describe how exemplary the F-22 Raptor is as a fighter jet than that its production run was quartered because it was peerless in air-to-air combat. The F-22's rectangular ...

The F-22 Raptor is a unique fighter jet in many respects. It's a rare model that boasts the ability to supercruise, or achieve speeds in excess of Mach 1 without needing to engage its afterburners.

Distant low rumbling: While the national anthem played over Patrick Space Force Base loudspeakers at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, July 10, two U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighters started swooping back ...

In addition to air scares, F-22 ground crews suffer "hypoxia-like symptoms." May 9, 2012 — -- As the Air Force searches desperately for the source of a mysterious and potentially deadly oxygen ...

Air Force blamed pilot for crash, DoD Inspector General says not so fast. Feb. 20, 2013 — -- For the first time the widow of an F-22 Raptor fighter pilot killed after his $420 million plane ...

Manufacturer Raytheon continues to get longer reach out of its AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, while its AIM-260 successor waits in the wings.