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

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

The plan, revealed in the FY2026 budget request, includes significant improvements to the jet's stealth coatings, radar, electronic warfare, and infrared search and track systems to keep it relevant ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.