this aircraft is the most advanced of
its breed built around the first look
first shot first kill ethos it is all
set to become the air dominant stealth
fighter of the 21st century the Raptor
is a killing machine just like the name
implies as deadly as it looks it's even
more deadly when a gas gets out there
and does its job
deadly and undetectable at long range
this breathtaking fifth-generation
fighter blends unmatched dogfighting
with precision strike ground attack
capabilities you literally are able to
swim through the sharks and the sharks
never see you and never know you're
there at any point in time you can reach
out and touch them with deadly force
capable of super crews and packing a
deadly array of state-of-the-art missile
systems this stealth jet of the new
millennium can intercept and strike any
target with near impunity they die they
die without knowing where the Raptors
are they die without knowing that they
were targeted they die often now using
unique footage will take you on an
all-access tour of America's newest
super weapon the FA 22 rut
1981 in his first press conference as
chief executive of the United States
Ronald Wilson Reagan offered a deal to
the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev if
Soviet ss-20 missiles aimed at Western
Europe were removed America would not
deploy its Pershing to cruise missiles
to counter the threat
throughout the 1960s and 70s the Soviets
developed different missiles to attack
in different altitude bands you couldn't
fly under the missile threat you
couldn't fly over the missile threat you
had to deal with the missile threat one
way to do that is to make suppression of
enemy air defense that is destroying the
missile sites in the radars the most
important mission for the Air Force by
the 1970s air superiority had reimagine
and the US Air Force committed to
building its first pure air superiority
fighter an aircraft that would
eventually become the f-15 Eagle
but just as f-15s became operational in
1978 alarming new evidence suggested
that the new fighter superiority might
only be temperament
u.s. reconnaissance satellites passing
over a Soviet flight test center north
of Moscow discover new Soviet fighters
being tested one was the agile fighter
the Mikoyan mig-29 but the other came as
a huge shock to Western analysts it was
bigger than the f-15 and far bigger than
any previous Soviet built fighter the
Sukhoi t10 prototype at that time the
Soviet Union initiated some very
aggressive programs to come up with
counters in both the mckeon and Sukhoi
both those design bureaus initiated new
aircraft development efforts and it
appeared that they run a track they
would field some very advanced fighters
if the mig-29 had concerned the American
military establishment the existence of
the Sukhoi t10 set alarm bells ringing
these are very good aircraft their
aircraft that play in the same league as
some of the top NATO aircraft like
phantom and ultimately like f-15
the goal is world peace just weeks into
his first term America's 40th president
increased US defense spending by thirty
two point five billion dollars and began
the rearmament of the United States on a
colossal scale
in 1981 the Cold War was getting very
warm
as Reagan and Brezhnev squared up the US
Air Force concluded that it urgently
needed a replacement for its f15 an
Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF that
would have no equal as American planners
start to develop the concept of air land
battle to fight World War three the u.s.
air force starts to think about the kind
of equipment it wants to have when it
comes time to fight the war at that time
in the secretive black world of advanced
aviation development one technology had
emerged at the forefront of all military
aircraft development stealth during that
period the late 1970s of course in what
we call the black world in the in the
world of secret programs there was a
great effort going on to come up with
counters to these new Soviet weapon
systems that could enable us to knock
out their Sam system and that of course
led to the development of the f-117
analysis of air-to-air combat in Vietnam
called
the Red Baron study and kick-started the
race for stealth an operational analysis
study showed in Vietnam that most
aircraft were killed by other aircraft
that they hadn't seen so from this you
get the idea that if the aircraft isn't
seen it has a tremendous advantage
air combat data from world war ii and
korea had reinforced this need for
invisibility
so from this in a process of operational
analysis the US Air Force learns that
what you really need to do is be
invisible to the enemy and that means
that an aircraft is designed to be as
near as possible invisible to an enemy
fighter aircraft it's geometry is
designed to give it a very low profile
that is to make it very invisible to an
oncoming fighter aircraft using
high-frequency fighter aircraft radar
the principle of stealth technology is
to literally make an aeroplane invisible
to the enemy an aircraft's shape must
reflect incoming radio waves away from
the enemy radar rather than towards it
to further increase low observable
characteristics an aeroplane is then
covered in materials that absorb radar
signals further reducing its visibility
on a radar screen
stealth doesn't mean invisible
it just means less visible operational
analysis shows that if you apply certain
computer models to air-to-air combat the
more stealthy aircraft the one that's
harder to see is likely or to win
leading the way in stealth technology
was Lockheed skunkworks
in the late 1970s tell wasn't widely
known outside of a few companies the
ability to integrate stealth technology
shaping for stealth and the materials
was really only well known in two
companies it was Lockheed and Northrop
in 1977 amid unprecedented security
Lockheed had flown a prototype of the
world's first stealth fighter and by the
1980s during Operation Just Cause its
f-117 had helped to destroy general
Noriega --zz regime in Panama now the US
Air Force decided that any new fighter
must incorporate stealth technology and
identified two other areas in which a
future air superiority fighter should
excel
well at that stage of the game was clear
that the Air Force wanted a stealthy
fighter it was also clear that they
wanted an airplane that would
supercruise in other words run
supersonically without lighting off to
afterburners and they didn't want to
sacrifice any of the classic fighter
maneuverability so they wanted a fighter
that besides all the new technology
would maneuver as well or better than
the f-15 in October 1982 representatives
from fighter manufacturers met with the
US Air Force and began to identify the
specific must-haves for the new fighter
at the time there were eight contractors
of built combat aircraft in the States
seven of those responded to a request
for proposals from that period of 1983
to 85 or 86 was a process of refinement
you know narrowing down the specific
parameters it must be a supersonic
cruise aircraft with a combat radius of
seven to nine hundred miles with reduced
observables if possible the aircraft
would have to be able to operate on a
2,000 foot runway and must be easier to
maintain than an f-15
the challenge had been issued now it was
up to the finest aviation manufacturers
in the world to respond I'm a village
optimist and I have to say that the
requirements were very demanding but I
didn't have any I didn't have any strong
feeling that we couldn't do this the
Advanced Tactical Fighter program was
about to begin and the Raptor America's
fifth-generation fighter was about to be
hatched by 1983 us-soviet relations had
reached a new low
following Leonid Brezhnev's death the
Politburo now controlled by ex-kgb boss
yuri and drop off had been labeled by
reagan as the focus of evil in the
modern world
continuing his policy of rearmament
Reagan announced plans for the Strategic
Defense Initiative better known as Star
Wars and Moscow reacted furiously
publishing polar prodigy in a Russian
capoeira a marathon see a Kaboodle's
Nina gusta get their image legally not
August when Korean Airlines flight
double-oh-seven on its way to Seoul from
New York strayed several hundred miles
off course into Soviet airspace Russia
acted a fighter was sent up and the
civilian airliner with 269 people on
board was shot down
a shooting down of kaal double-oh-seven
sent shockwaves around the world
straining international relations almost
a breaking point but can we think of a
regime that so broadly trumpets its
vision of peace and global disarmament
and yet so callously and quickly commits
a terrorist act to sacrifice the lives
of innocent human beings
Regan's reaction to the crisis
strengthened u.s. conviction that
stealth would now be the prime
requirement for America's new feisty
some senior people the Pentagon looked
at the stealth requirements and decided
they were inadequate and they radically
changed him so the stealth became a
really major dominant requirement in the
program in this politically charged
climate the US Air Force created its
Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF system
program office based at wright-patterson
Air Force Base in Ohio Colonel Albert CP
Carrillo is placed in charge of the
division one of the things we really
wanted was the ability to leverage
stealth in a high-performance fighter
and we also wanted this high-performance
fighter to still be capable of good
clothes in within visual range
maneuvering capability in fact we wanted
more than just existing capability in
something the manufacturers are invited
to submit concepts for an aircraft with
an operational radius of 800 miles
enough to allow it to operate over the
entire central region of Europe from
bases in central England it should have
low observable characteristics and be
able to cruise at Mach 1 point 5 for an
astonishing 600 miles
we weren't building an airplane for the
1990s although that was what we were
trying to do we were really building a
fighter for the 21st century that could
take on all of the advanced threats that
the Soviet Union was likely to throw in
itself all of the teams would have their
work cut out for them
but importantly the military added
another complicating factor at the end
of the concept demonstration phase the
decision was made by the Air Force to
launch a demonstration validation phase
of the program that would involve
building to flight demonstrators YF type
airplanes that would then be evaluated
they didn't after that full armament
they didn't have to have avionics they
didn't have to have stealth coatings but
essentially they were going to go out
show us what you can do but building
prototype aircraft is expensive and no
one manufacturer could afford it on
their own
they all know that they must invest so
much money and developing that if they
don't get the contract they're going to
be so out of pocket it's gonna hurt the
company badly
we Lockheed made a policy decision at
the CEO level that we would seek teaming
so the bottom line is we ended up
deciding that we would team with Boeing
and General Dynamics Fort Worth each
manufacturer would submit a design for
the demonstration valuation or Denville
competition but had agreed that the
winning company would be the prime
contractor and its partners
subcontracted to produce major
components
everybody's investment will be at least
partly repaid because everybody gets
piece of the action seven designs for
the Air Force competition was submitted
for final evaluation all of the seven
contractors came in with designs that
were very feasible and it could that
could have been built the question was
which were the best and then how did we
determined that they really were good
enough to manufacturers with strong
experience in stealth technology
Northrop with its b2
and Lockheed with its f-117 lead the way
northrop's Advanced Tactical Fighter or
ATF design was for an alien looking
aircraft with diamond planform wings and
huge V tails it was a design that
stressed speed and stealth Northrop came
in with a an airplane that really from
the very beginning look just like the Y
of 23 that eventually was built as well
Lockheed's entry echoed that of the
f-117 it's vectored thrust Arrowhead
shape trapezoidal wings and four tails
ensure that the aircraft would be
maneuverable the fact was that Lockheed
and Northrop had significant advantages
in the fact that they had built stealth
aircraft and flown them it's big
credibility factor there
on October 31st 1986 both Lockheed and
Northrop ATF designs were declared the
winners of the competition under the
terms of the dem val competition each
team would build two aircraft
at the end of the process one of two
designs would become America's new
Advanced Tactical Fighter costing
billions of dollars the new fighter
would make a technological leap into the
21st century just nine months after
being selected to build to demonstration
valuation fighters for the US Air Force
Lockheed shocked everyone and scrapped
its original design in July of 87 we
looked at our design at that time and we
looked at what we thought it would weigh
and how it would perform and with no
input from the Air Force we decided to
start over so between July 13th of 87
and mid-october that year basically
that's where the f-22 came into the
world in a hectic three-month process
with help from its partners lockheed
produced a completely different
configuration with a clipped delta wing
we changed to clip diamond wings which
gave us almost the same aerodynamic
performance but a lot lower structural
weight we did the same thing with the
trapezoidal horizontal tails and the
same thing with the verticals
over the next four years at a cost of
just over two billion dollars America's
tactical fighter competition became the
largest program of its kind
and in 1990 just months after the
disintegration of the Soviet Union the
shapes of the two rival designs were
finally unveiled and now ladies and
gentlemen I proudly present to you the
yf-22 a prototype for US air superiority
in the 21st century
on behalf of the entire team I am
honored to present the yf-23
Northrop's version called the yf-23
closely resembled its original design
well it was the most unusual looking at
very futuristic it had twin details as
opposed to what's called a cruciform
twin verticals and twin horizontals I
had a large trapezoidal wing and it had
a very slender shape and looked at for
me a John view in contrast Lockheed's
design called the yf-22 seemed
surprisingly conventional with four tail
surfaces vectored thrust a broad solid
body and a conventional wing but unlike
Lockheed's other stealth aircraft the
f-117 radar absorbent materials were not
applied over the whole of the FA 22 but
used selectively on its edges cavities
and crucial surface areas
you walk around the airplane everywhere
you look about what you see is something
that's designed to do the job in the
most efficient and effective way and no
wasted space no wasted capability it's
truly an airplane it's intended and has
been optimized for its job
the f-22 carries its weapons internally
for weapons bays are hidden in the
central mid-body section six missiles
can be carried in the ventral Bay's
which are covered with bi-fold doors the
side bays will each hold one Sidewinder
missile carried on a trapeze launcher
the mid-body section also houses the
fighters landing gear and complex in met
ducts right from day one on the f-22 we
decided to put s-shaped
Inlet ducts on it so the airplane is
built with s-shape Inlet ducts so that
there's no way a radar is ever seeing
the forward face of the jet engine
attached to the mid-body is the four
body which accommodates the cockpit and
advanced avionics both the yf-23 and the
yf-22 are impressive-looking machines
but their performance still needs to be
tested the most crucial stage of the
competition is still to come the flight
testing
Northrop was first in the air in August
1990 flown by Paul Metz the yf-23 got
airborne
the test was a huge success but Lockheed
was quick to respond and on September
the 29th at Edwards Air Force Base in
California
Lockheed chief test pilot Dave Ferguson
prepared the raptor for its maiden
flight I pulled on her runway and looked
down the runway it was just a feeling of
really relief and that we're going to do
it and I ran the airplane up to 80%
military power
and acceleration was just amazing I mean
it was like an f15 in full afterburner
and I thought the only thing in this
airplane that's ever flown before it was
me and I think in the back of my mind I
was saying please fly please fly when I
pulled your nose up and it just lifted
off
I was fully aware we had a wonderful
flying airplane and the handling
qualities in the takeoff and landing
their power approach as we call it were
just absolutely superb when I landed in
Sherman at the airplane I said hey boss
we really have a winner here the way the
f-22 performed was no surprise to
anybody who was involved in the program
not at all I mean my money has been on
the f-22 from early 1985 it'll be there
till I'm gone over the next three months
the Raptor underwent a whole series of
tests the Air Force required both teams
to give them performance projections and
then they were going to actually compare
that with what the airplanes actually
did in flight subsonic supersonic at
different altitudes and so forth
the winner of this stage would earn a
contract for 650 aircraft the decision
would hinge not just on what the
contractors promised but on the Air
Force's confidence in their ability to
deliver
we expected to get a lot of flying done
in the 90 days we actually got 72
flights out of two airplanes in 90 days
and that is about as good as you can do
during flight testing the Raptor had
beaten northrop yf-23 in a number of
crucial performance areas
we'd focused on the supersonic testing
including super cruising and we did
something that Northrop didn't do and
that is we did launch a couple of
missiles we launched a Sidewinder out of
the internal side bay on our prototype
airplanes and we launched an AM Ram
long-range air-to-air missile out of the
internal web space the yf-22 had clearly
shown that in every category
it was far superior to any existing
fighter the Air Force was was very
impressed by what Lockheed had done
their flight test program was very
aggressive they flew hard and fast they
flew many more hours and sorties than
Northrop did and all of that gave the
Air Force confidence that they knew what
they were doing high confidence and they
could build a superior airplane
but it would be events in 1991 that
would carve out the Raptors future
22 minutes after midnight on January the
17th 1991
Lockheed's stealth f-117 spearheaded
u.s. stripes against Saddam Hussein's
regime the performance of Lockheed
stealth bombers during Operation Desert
Storm would give the company and its
aircraft some priceless publicity
I think clearly Lockheed was benefited
in 1991 by the Gulf War where the f-117
was it was a star performer and there
were skeptics of stealth even as late as
that that had to be beneficial to the
program but another aircraft also
emerged from the Gulf War with a glowing
reputation
you
the f-15 the aircraft destined to be
replaced by the ATF had emphatically
confirmed its status as the foremost air
superiority fighter in the world now it
appeared that the need for an advanced
stealthy fighter the f-22 might be
totally unfounded it's all like the f-15
wasn't any good it's good aircraft it's
still a good aircraft it will be a good
aircraft for years to come you could
even just chew up the factory and keep
building new f50 - why not
yeah but not everyone agrees the big
weakness in their argument is they are
making a statement about world
conditions today and what the threats
are today the real issue is what
capability you want for 2025 or 2030 the
people who say you don't need this they
think the world is not going to change
in the next 20 years and that is a hell
of an assertion by April 1991 bogged
down by the f-15 debate the US Air Force
prepares to announce the winner of the
Advanced Tactical Fighter contract but
would the Raptor emerge from the
controversy unscathed
on April the 1st 1991 the US Air Force
awarded a nine and a half billion dollar
contract to the Lockheed Boeing General
Dynamics team responsible for the
winning f-22 Raptor design having won
the contract Lockheed announced that it
intended to locate the f-22 s
headquarters in Georgia where the
Raptors forward fuselage would be built
General Dynamics were build the f-22s
mid-body section in Fort Worth Texas and
Boeing would manufacture the wings and
tail in Seattle Washington
but just eight months after the contract
was awarded the program hit its first
major snag we lost one of the yf-22
fortunately the test pilot who was a
good friend of mine then and now walked
away unharmed during preliminary testing
the unthinkable happened
a yf-22 flown by Tom Morgan fell crashed
just after takeoff
as this unique footage shows the
aircraft's thrust vectoring system
forces it to belly land on the runway a
key element of the Raptors design thrust
vectoring uses movable exhaust nozzles
to alter the angle of thrust from the
two Pratt & Whitney engines
as the Raptor makes its low-level flyby
Tom Morgan felt keeps the stick forward
to keep the nose down but as the landing
gear is retracted the thrust vectoring
engages and pushes the aircraft towards
the tarmac as the pilot struggles to
correct this change in direction the
Raptor C soars the fundamental error
there had nothing to do with the
airplane it had to do with the fact that
you don't fly a green airplane and fly
it at low speeds at low altitudes the
cause of that accident was stupidity on
the part of the management it had
nothing to do with technology
despite the loss of the stealth aircraft
the program had achieved its major goals
ten million man-hours of analysis four
thousand hours of radar testing and
hundreds of hours of flight testing had
gone into the development of the
aircraft even before construction was
given the going
in fact the f-22 has accomplished more
flight testing than any other fighter
prior to full-scale production the first
fa20 to built for the US Air Force was
unveiled in a ceremony on April the 9th
1997 at the company's headquarters in
Marietta Georgia
now Air Force pilots would get the
opportunity to check up the new aircraft
for themselves I would call the Raptor
the Miss America while aircraft it's got
the talent it's got the bikini contest
one it's beautiful it's got all the
capabilities it really wins the show in
every aspect the airplane is eye
watering it it does everything the pilot
asked of it and it is very good at what
it does first flown by the Air Force in
1997 pilots at Edwards Air Force Base
have surpassed 2,000 flight test hours
in more than 900 missions
the first time I went out one effe 22 me
against four f-16s and they told me what
they were going to do they were going to
do everything possible to defeat my
systems and I watched exactly what they
did the entire time and shot them all
it was almost too easy now it's almost
laughing in the cockpit
one of the key advances in the Raptors
design is its advanced cockpit and
integrated avionics systems but I think
really where the Raptor gets its amazing
capability is the fusion of all of the
different sensors on the aircraft you
have a tactical scope that combines the
information of all the other sensors on
the aircraft into one display for the
pilot so as a pilot you don't have to
sort through the radar or another sensor
to see what's going on around you
information this power and the way this
airplane displays information to you it
gives you knowledge of the battlespace
it's all about seeing what's out there
in front of you and being able to make
decisions about what to engage when to
engage and how to engage it I'd say
integrated avionics does two things for
me
number one it makes me a lot safer it
gives me less chance to crash my jet it
also makes every pilot who flies this
aircraft more deadly instead of having
to do six or eight steps to achieve a
kill you really only have to do one
the raptor carries a formidable array of
ordnance all of the Raptors weapons are
housed inside the aircraft two bays at
the bottom of the plane utilize a
pneumatic style hydraulic launcher that
literally punched the missiles or
Jaden's out of the aircraft with a force
of 40 G and to side Bay's how's
air-to-air missiles here a trapeze
launcher moves the missile outside the
airframe very rapidly a fraction of a
second before the missile is fired and
to complement the Raptors armament of
eight missiles the fighter also has a
gun at one point in the evolution of the
advanced tactical fighter program the US
Air Force had raised the question of
eliminating the gun to save weight
I think that the designers of the FA 22
realized mistakes of the past like the F
for initially being designed without a
gun and realize that you should never
say never about a threat that you're
going to face or a situation you're
gonna find yourself in and so the raptor
has designed itself a gun will anybody
get close enough for us to use the gun
well hopefully not probably not by the
late 90s pilots in the Raptor program
were convinced that their aircraft was
made of the right stuff that would
easily be able to outperform and destroy
any other fighter in existence
it is the sum of the parts that makes
the FA 22 so capable probably most
important in my eyes is the stealth
having an aircraft that nobody can see
is just a tremendous tremendous
advantage the speed the maneuverability
the precision all those factors are
incredible also so when you put
everything together the Raptor is just
incredible
but this belief was exclusively based on
controlled flight and missile firing
exercises what the Raptors pilots really
needed was combat experience and they
were about to get it before the FA 22
Raptor enters operational service with
the US Air Force in the autumn of 2005
it will have completed thousands of
hours of vigorous combat testing
but since Desert Storm critics of the
f-22 program claim that the f-15 Eagle
destined to be replaced by the Raptor
already has the attributes necessary to
remain the world's pre-eminent air
superiority fighter well into the new
millennium
it is a view dismissed by the US efforts
if you look at the f-15 the f-18 and
compare it with existing fighters that
are sold around the world today you'll
find that today we're almost at Perry if
we ever run up against an enemy that has
the ability in terms of the aircrew to
use those enemy fighters we will have a
tough time with the current generation
the f-15 is a great aircraft and in
air-to-air it is outstanding however
with the production of new fighters that
are being produced today and also some
service to air threats there are
situations in the f-15 that would make
me nervous
in March 2003 supporters of the f-15 got
the opportunity to see whether or not
the eagle was still the best fighter in
the sky five f-15s would go head-to-head
with a single Raptor
although no missiles would be used
during the exercise the sorties would
closely resemble actual combat no
quarter would be given by either side
this was a kill-or-be-killed
exercise there were five of us Ares in
and me and my biggest concern was
running out of weapons too soon
all five f-15s are flown by experienced
f-22 pilots one by one the rapt brings
them down I could never see them I never
knew that they were there and I died you
got stuck
roll up I could hear him on the radio
calling his simulated missile shots Fox
tube and knowing that this was getting
really unnerving because I could also
tell his range was was closing rapidly
on me I don't think anybody ever saw me
the entire time
that while we were on the air space
bandit bandit
could not find him no matter what I did
and the next time was when he flew
directly over the top of my hair from my
soaring vision
I know firsthand from flying the Raptor
against other aircraft and flying other
aircraft against the Raptor that it's
like clubbing baby seals it's so easy
the first indication you have that the
net pay 22 is out in your area of
responsibility is when you are in your
parachute heading down towards earth and
your your jet is falling a little bit
faster than you are
in combat testing with f-15s the fa 22
Raptor has emphatically proven its
doubters wrong
there been times when the rapture has
gone up to vs. 8 against f15 and it ends
up being boring for the adversaries
because no matter what they do they die
having flown the f-15 and now having
flown the Raptor and seeing combat I
would not want to be on the receiving
end of what the fa 23 was capable we
will take on anything any combination of
the latest the latest aircraft that we
can throw it ourselves and we usually
win today 27 fa 22 Raptors have been
delivered to the US air force and are in
limited operation at Edwards Nellis and
Tyndall Air Force bases many more will
follow
the air force has agreed to a final
production run of almost 300 aircraft I
think 300 FA 20s will tip the scales of
any conflict in our favor I think that
any country who sees 300 FA 22s flying
towards it has got to get a little
nervous
Lockheed expects that a full production
rate of 60 aircraft per year will have
been achieved by the end of 2004 and
with components and parts coming from
four to six congressional states the fa
22 is truly a national effort costing a
massive 93 million dollars each the
Raptor is certainly the world's most
expensive fighter aircraft but for many
it is money well spent
yeah this is something special this was
not like an f15 on steroids or an f-16
on steroids this is the real thing with
a leap of technology that's orders of
magnitude better than what we have there
the interesting thing about the f-22
though is it is a fixed volume with an
infinitely increasing ability in terms
of its computer capabilities if you
think about the airplane has fixed holes
in the sides of the fuselage where
computers sit today in the future there
will be more computer capacity that
requires less power going in that same
physical hole so the fa20 to over the
course of life will become a more and
more flexible and warm more potent
machine as computer capacity increases
America's fa20 to Raptor was created out
of the Cold War fear that Russian made
fighters would sweep aside the f-15
but the world has changed since the
frigid days of the Cold War
the Soviet Union no longer exists and
the f-15 has more than earned the fear
and respected commands as the current
frontline fighter for the US Air Force
but the Raptor Lockheed's fa20 - looks
all set to carry US air force doctrine
well into the 21st century I'd be
terrified to to go into the arena with
something like that
I really would I've been on the
receiving end of it in testing and
mentally translated myself to what if
this was combat and it is a unnerving na
a disquieting feeling to fly in the same
airspace with more these airlines I
would say that it's not fair to our
enemies or even our own technology to
fight against the Raptor but the goal of
war isn't fair that we don't go into
combat because we want a fair fight
we want to win as fast as possible with
as little loss of life as possible and
the Raptor allows that to do that for
generations to come
in today's changing world there are few
certainties but the rule of the Raptor
America's air dominance fighter over the
skies is one of them
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