The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American single-seat, twin-engine, supersonic all-weather stealth fighter aircraft developed for the USAF
The Definition of Air Dominance The Collier Award-winning F-22 Raptor first took flight on Sept. 7, 1997 in Marietta, Georgia, after six years of development. It has delivered on its promise to provide unprecedented air dominance. Today, the Raptor continues to provide our nation and allies air superiority and is a pathfinder to next-generation technologies. Flying the F-22 Raptor What's it like flying an F-22? Hear from Capt. Samuel "RaZZ" Larson, F-22 Demo Team Pilot & Commander, about the unmatched capabilities of The Raptor. The 5th Generation F-22’s unique combination of stealth, speed, agility, and situational awareness, combined with lethal long-range air-to-air and air-to-ground weaponry, makes it the best air dominance fighter in the world. Interconnected Air Power of the Future Battlespace Lockheed Martin is focused on the F-22’s connectivity with other platforms in support of the Air Force’s Joint All-Domain Operations strategy. When it comes to open systems architecture and digital engineering, there is no better example than the F-22 Raptor.F22 Mission-Ready Sustainment
Lockheed Martin is committed to providing higher readiness rates, faster response and lower life-cycle cost to our U.S. Air Force customer. Through Follow-on Agile Sustainment, a comprehensive weapons management program and an award-winning performance-based logistics (PBL) contract, we provide a highly integrated F-22 support system. The key to F-22 sustainment is integration. Our strategic partnership with the U.S. Air Force helps to merge highly complex sustainment activities into one unified operation. This integration allows for greater efficiency, lower cost, and enhanced responsiveness to the needs of the operators and maintainers in the field.
Sustainment work for the F-22 includes:
Reliability and Maintainability Maturation Program (RAMMP): In RAMMP, our team inspects data from the field of operations and engineering solutions to increase aircraft availability for combat. Modernization Line: The Ogden Air Logistics Center at Hill Air Force Base houses the only current F-22 Modernization Line, integrating the latest system capabilities to enhance the Raptor’s asymmetric advantage over adversaries. Stealth Coating Repair: About 50% of maintenance performed on the F-22 is related to repairing the low observable stealth coatings that are damaged when the aircraft is opened up for routine maintenance. Engine Maintenance: The Pratt & Whitney F119 engines are designed to allow standard flight line maintenance using just six common tools available at commercial hardware stores. Integrated Maintenance Information System (IMIS): IMIS enables maintainers to plug their laptop into the jet, log completed maintenance, and plug their computer back into the system to update a global database instantaneously, ensuring proper and complete maintenance records are kept no matter where the F-22 is deployed to on the globe.F-22 Raptor
The F-22 is a stealthy, penetrating, air dominance, and multirole attack fighter built for day, night, and adverse weather, full-spectrum operations. The world’s most advanced fighter, it combines stealth, supercruise, and high maneuverability. Its integrated avionics and data links permit simultaneous multitarget engagement. Advanced flight controls and thrust-vectoring, high-performance engines enable high maneuverability. Features include six LCD color cockpit displays, APG-77 AESA radar, EW system with RWR and missile launch detection, JTIDS, IFF, and INS/GPS navigation.The prototype YF-22 first flew as part of USAF’s Advanced Tactical Fighter competition on Sept. 29,
1990, followed by the flight of the first F-22 test aircraft in 1997. The Raptor flew its first operational sortie during Noble Eagle in 2006 and debuted in combat striking Islamic State ground targets during Inherent Resolve in 2014.
The F-22 program uses an “agile” modernization strategy to rapidly and continuously develop, test, and field incremental improvements. Significant efforts include the Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Program (RAMP), Software Increment 3.2B, and tactical capability improvements. RAMP is adding AIM-9X-capable launch rails, more durable LO, as well as structural and wiring fixes.
3.2B software is the highest priority update, adding high-resolution ground mapping SAR, threat geolocation, EA capability, and integration of SDB I, AIM-120D, and AIM-9X. Link-16 (previously TACLink-16) will bundle transmit and receive capability with legacy aircraft via Multifunctional Information Distribution System/Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS/JTRS) with initial fielding in FY22.
More Aviation subjets on https://www.chkod.com/
#aerospace_engineering #avionic_systems #aerospace_navigation #aircraft_mishap #aviation_accident #aviation_invetigation