The F-22 Raptor is a fifth-generation fighter jet that offers great stealth and other advanced capabilities. So why did the Air Force choose to discontinue it?

Seeing how the F-22 Raptor is one of the world's very few 5th generation aircraft, thus one of the newest flying fighting platforms in the U.S. arsenal, you'd think it is fully equipped to meet ...

The United States Air Force carried out its first “elephant walk” of 2025 at Langley Air Force Base (AFB) in Virginia last month. The surge exercise on January 31 included aircraft from the 1st ...

Lockheed Martin Corp. LMT recently clinched a deal worth $270 million to integrate a system of next-generation infrared defensive sensors on the F-22 Raptor military aircraft. The award has been ...

The F-22 will receive an embedded set of TacIRST sensors as part of the Infrared Defensive System to enhance aircraft survivability and lethality. Lockheed Martin announced on Jan. 22, 2025 ...

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The photos, dating back to November 2022, show the second “chrome” F-35C with its peculiar mirror-like coating degraded over ...

and tracking sensors “to enhance aircraft survivability and lethality.” “In addition to managing integration of IRDS on the F-22, the company will also support integration on other platforms ...

In terms of armaments, the F-22 is well-equipped. The jet’s larger frame allows for three internal weapons bays that can carry an array of lethal weaponry when in a stealth configuration.

embedded in F-22 fuselages, to passively identify and track airborne objects via heat signature. Each sensor will be flush with the jet’s airframe, maintaining the aircraft’s critical stealthy ...