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F-22 Raptor 5TH Generation Fighter

Delivering Air Dominance


Assures Future Air Dominance
Advanced stealth. Information fusion. Supercruise. Fighter agility. Unsurpassed situational awareness. New standards of
reliability and maintainability. Net-enabled operations. Lethal, survivable, sustainable and deployable – one of only two
5TH Generation fighters in the world.
Welcome to the era of the F-22 Raptor – the only fighter capable of simultaneously conducting air-to-air and air-to-ground
combat missions with near impunity. This is accomplished with a never-before-seen standard of survivability even while
facing large numbers of sophisticated airborne and ground-based threats.
The aircraft known as the Raptor is greatly different from the one envisioned by the Lockheed Martin contractor team and
the U.S. Air Force when the program was initiated in the mid-1980s. In addition to being America’s premier air-superiority
fighter, the F-22 has evolved and taken advantage of emerging technologies to become a lethal, survivable and flexible
multimission fighter with the potential to conduct additional missions as diverse as intelligence gathering, surveillance,
reconnaissance and electronic attack.
The Raptor is here today. The U.S. Air Force declared Initial Operational Capability December 15, 2005, with F-22s
assigned to Air Combat Command’s 1st Fighter Wing at Langley, AFB, Va. While Raptor pilots and maintainers train at
Tyndall AFB in Panama City, Fla., new F-22s continue to roll from the production line. Operational testing is conducted
at Edwards AFB and Nellis AFB, outside Las Vegas, Nev.

Defining the 5TH Generation Fighter


The F-22 calls for an entirely new way of thinking about fighter capabilities. By integrating a
wealth of different features – from stealth to supercruise – the fighter re-defines the meaning
of air dominance. It brings a quantum leap in lethality and survivability. It offers sharply enhanced expeditionary capability
through a more reliable, more maintainable aircraft. These attributes can only be realized through a design created from the
ground up to develop the world’s most capable fighter.
Advanced Stealth
With embedded antennas, integrated sensors, swept wings, aligned edges, internal weapons and fuel and special
coatings and materials, the Raptor is able to pick and choose engagements while remaining virtually undetected by
enemy air defense systems.
Supercruise Speed
The F-22 is able to achieve and maintain speeds in excess of Mach 1.5 for extended periods of time without the use of
afterburners. This allows the F-22 to overwhelm time-critical targets, performing the mission faster with less exposure to
risk. Survivability and lethality are both higher with the blistering sustained speeds of the F-22.
Extreme Fighter Agility
Superior aerodynamic performance derived from the Raptor’s blended mold
lines, large control surfaces and thrust-vectoring nozzles allow the F-22 to
outmaneuver any threat through faster acceleration, razor-sharp turning and
The F-22 gives pilots
a wide range of speeds.
the best battlefield
Sensor Fusion situational awareness
of any warfighter
Advanced integrated avionics processing data from a variety of onboard
in history.
and net-enabled, off-board sensors provide the F-22 pilot with a seamless
real-world, real-time, 360-degree display of the battlespace, which allows
the pilot to be a tactician versus a technician.
Joint Force Enabler
The F-22 Raptor is a key enabler to assured future joint air dominance on a 24/7/365 basis in any foreseen threat
environment. This in turn enables joint and coalition forces operations – starting on Day One of a conflict – even amid the
most sophisticated and numerically superior anti-access threats.
This photo and top cover photo taken by
TSgt. Ben Bloker, USAF, Combat Photographer
Marvel of
Engineering
The F-22 remains an unprecedented
aerospace achievement – an extremely
maneuverable supersonic aircraft nearly
invisible to radar and armed with an
array of weapons and with sensors
that provide pilots with a complete,
360-degree understanding of the tactical
situation. The Raptor literally brings
stealth into the light of day, as the F-22’s
speed, maneuverability, counterair and
precision-strike weapons allow it to attack
heavily defended targets in broad daylight,
something no previous stealth aircraft
could risk.

Weapons Capability
Current Air-to-Air and
Air-to-Ground Armament

M61A2 Cannon
(480 Rounds)

Stealthy 5,000-lb Side Side 5,000-lb


Air-to-Air Hardpoints Bay Center Bays Bay Hardpoints
(2) AIM-9M
(6) AIM-120C

Air-to-Ground (Baseline)
(2) AIM-9M
(2) AIM-120C
(2) 1,000-lb JDAM

Air-to-Ground (Growth)
(8) 250-lb SDB (small diameter bomb)
(2) AIM-9X
(2) AIM-120C
F-22 Raptor
Nonstealthy Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 ft / 18.90 m
External Combat Height . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.67 ft / 5.08 m
(2) AIM-9M
Wingspan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.5 ft / 13.56 m
(6) AIM-120C
Wing area . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840 ft2 / 78.04 m2
(2) Fuel tanks (600 gal.)
Horizontal tail span . . . . . 29 ft / 8.84 m
(4) Missiles
Track width . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.6 ft / 3.23 m
Engine thrust class . . . . . . 35,000 lb / 15,876 kg
The Power of a Partnership
While Lockheed Martin is the program’s principal systems integrator, partnership
with Boeing and engine power by Pratt & Whitney poise this program for success.
Furthermore, nearly 1,000 subcontractors and suppliers in 42 states manufacture parts
and subsystems for the Raptor. Principal aircraft production activities take place at
Lockheed Martin facilities in Marietta, Ga., Fort Worth, Texas, and Palmdale, Calif.,
as well as at Boeing’s plant in Seattle, Wash. Final assembly and initial flight testing of
the Raptor occur at the Marietta factory, production headquarters for the F-22 program’s
contractor team. The Raptor’s low-observable control surface edges, antennas and radomes
are built in Palmdale, while its mid fuselage is built in Fort Worth. Boeing builds the
aircraft’s aft fuselage and wings. The first F-22 built, Raptor 01, was flown for the first
time from the Marietta plant September 7, 1997.
Two F119-PW-100 engines power the F-22. The F119, the world’s most advanced combat
aircraft engine in production, features a unique thrust-vectoring nozzle, integrated stealth
characteristics and the capability to supercruise, or achieve Mach 1.5+ speeds, without
the use of afterburners. The engines are built by Pratt & Whitney in Middletown, Conn.,
with key components from Columbus, Ga., and Berwick, Maine.

High-Performance Fighter
With Low Maintenance
Requirements
The F-22 is designed with the maintainer in mind,
needing only half the maintenance time, spare
parts, people and support airlift compared to
today’s legacy fighter aircraft. Key maintenance
enhancements include:
• A totally electronic diagnostic system provides
a paperless approach for all F-22 troubleshooting
and maintenance; information is downloaded to
a portable maintenance aid (PMA) directly from
the aircraft
The PMA – a rugged, weather-resistant, hand-held computer to troubleshoot
maintenance issues.
• Integrated Maintenance Information System (IMIS)
and Diagnostics & Health Management (DHM)
are integrated to indicate to the maintainer specific
actions required to rapidly repair anomalies
• F119 engines are designed to allow standard
flight line maintenance using just six common
hand-tools available at commercial hardware stores
• Strategically placed new technology access panels,
along with access points in the landing gear wells
and weapons bays, make the Raptor easier to arm,
fuel and maintain while avoiding the need to
disturb the F-22’s low-observable coatings
Transformational and integrated avionics will lead the initial
“kick down the door” force, enabling
provides a critical edge to Joint Force
commanders. Rapid achievement of air
Leap 24-hour stealth operations and freedom dominance allows maximum flexibility
The F-22 is leading U.S. Air Force of movement for all follow-on forces – for U.S. and coalition forces.
transformation efforts. Its ability to fully leveraging our nation’s technological The F-22 represents an unprecedented
penetrate airspace in anti-access theaters advantages. leap in warfighting capabilities for the
while finding, tracking and targeting The F-22 gives U.S. forces and allies an U.S. Air Force and coalition forces.
enemy air forces and ground-based advantage that will endure well into the
threats will ensure freedom of maneuver future. By incorporating revolutionary
for all Joint Forces. The F-22’s unique advances in technology, the F-22 is ready
combination of advanced stealth, to dominate any and all adversaries from
supercruise, advanced maneuverability the outset of any conflict. This capability
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