1 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,200 this aircraft is the most advanced of 2 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,840 its breed built around the first look 3 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,349 first shot first kill ethos it is all 4 00:00:31,349 --> 00:00:33,360 set to become the air dominant stealth 5 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,500 fighter of the 21st century the Raptor 6 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:39,180 is a killing machine just like the name 7 00:00:39,180 --> 00:00:42,269 implies as deadly as it looks it's even 8 00:00:42,269 --> 00:00:43,980 more deadly when a gas gets out there 9 00:00:43,980 --> 00:00:45,940 and does its job 10 00:00:45,940 --> 00:00:48,760 deadly and undetectable at long range 11 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:50,920 this breathtaking fifth-generation 12 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,650 fighter blends unmatched dogfighting 13 00:00:53,650 --> 00:00:55,809 with precision strike ground attack 14 00:00:55,809 --> 00:01:01,629 capabilities you literally are able to 15 00:01:01,629 --> 00:01:03,220 swim through the sharks and the sharks 16 00:01:03,220 --> 00:01:05,080 never see you and never know you're 17 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,450 there at any point in time you can reach 18 00:01:07,450 --> 00:01:09,869 out and touch them with deadly force 19 00:01:09,869 --> 00:01:12,729 capable of super crews and packing a 20 00:01:12,729 --> 00:01:14,830 deadly array of state-of-the-art missile 21 00:01:14,830 --> 00:01:17,259 systems this stealth jet of the new 22 00:01:17,259 --> 00:01:19,720 millennium can intercept and strike any 23 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,680 target with near impunity they die they 24 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,060 die without knowing where the Raptors 25 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:27,310 are they die without knowing that they 26 00:01:27,310 --> 00:01:32,979 were targeted they die often now using 27 00:01:32,979 --> 00:01:35,020 unique footage will take you on an 28 00:01:35,020 --> 00:01:37,810 all-access tour of America's newest 29 00:01:37,810 --> 00:01:43,380 super weapon the FA 22 rut 30 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:50,630 1981 in his first press conference as 31 00:01:50,630 --> 00:01:52,460 chief executive of the United States 32 00:01:52,460 --> 00:01:55,490 Ronald Wilson Reagan offered a deal to 33 00:01:55,490 --> 00:01:59,900 the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev if 34 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:02,479 Soviet ss-20 missiles aimed at Western 35 00:02:02,479 --> 00:02:04,790 Europe were removed America would not 36 00:02:04,790 --> 00:02:07,130 deploy its Pershing to cruise missiles 37 00:02:07,130 --> 00:02:09,940 to counter the threat 38 00:02:11,349 --> 00:02:14,360 throughout the 1960s and 70s the Soviets 39 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,700 developed different missiles to attack 40 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:19,159 in different altitude bands you couldn't 41 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:21,349 fly under the missile threat you 42 00:02:21,349 --> 00:02:23,690 couldn't fly over the missile threat you 43 00:02:23,690 --> 00:02:26,720 had to deal with the missile threat one 44 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,579 way to do that is to make suppression of 45 00:02:28,579 --> 00:02:31,940 enemy air defense that is destroying the 46 00:02:31,940 --> 00:02:34,519 missile sites in the radars the most 47 00:02:34,519 --> 00:02:40,040 important mission for the Air Force by 48 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:44,390 the 1970s air superiority had reimagine 49 00:02:44,390 --> 00:02:47,060 and the US Air Force committed to 50 00:02:47,060 --> 00:02:48,829 building its first pure air superiority 51 00:02:48,829 --> 00:02:51,170 fighter an aircraft that would 52 00:02:51,170 --> 00:02:55,510 eventually become the f-15 Eagle 53 00:02:58,209 --> 00:03:01,519 but just as f-15s became operational in 54 00:03:01,519 --> 00:03:04,640 1978 alarming new evidence suggested 55 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:06,470 that the new fighter superiority might 56 00:03:06,470 --> 00:03:09,519 only be temperament 57 00:03:10,890 --> 00:03:13,540 u.s. reconnaissance satellites passing 58 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:15,700 over a Soviet flight test center north 59 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:18,520 of Moscow discover new Soviet fighters 60 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,250 being tested one was the agile fighter 61 00:03:21,250 --> 00:03:25,300 the Mikoyan mig-29 but the other came as 62 00:03:25,300 --> 00:03:30,100 a huge shock to Western analysts it was 63 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:32,770 bigger than the f-15 and far bigger than 64 00:03:32,770 --> 00:03:35,590 any previous Soviet built fighter the 65 00:03:35,590 --> 00:03:39,880 Sukhoi t10 prototype at that time the 66 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:42,070 Soviet Union initiated some very 67 00:03:42,070 --> 00:03:43,960 aggressive programs to come up with 68 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,170 counters in both the mckeon and Sukhoi 69 00:03:47,170 --> 00:03:50,170 both those design bureaus initiated new 70 00:03:50,170 --> 00:03:52,780 aircraft development efforts and it 71 00:03:52,780 --> 00:03:54,670 appeared that they run a track they 72 00:03:54,670 --> 00:03:57,490 would field some very advanced fighters 73 00:03:57,490 --> 00:04:01,360 if the mig-29 had concerned the American 74 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:03,520 military establishment the existence of 75 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:08,220 the Sukhoi t10 set alarm bells ringing 76 00:04:08,220 --> 00:04:11,010 these are very good aircraft their 77 00:04:11,010 --> 00:04:14,070 aircraft that play in the same league as 78 00:04:14,070 --> 00:04:16,790 some of the top NATO aircraft like 79 00:04:16,790 --> 00:04:21,279 phantom and ultimately like f-15 80 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:27,010 the goal is world peace just weeks into 81 00:04:27,010 --> 00:04:29,860 his first term America's 40th president 82 00:04:29,860 --> 00:04:32,260 increased US defense spending by thirty 83 00:04:32,260 --> 00:04:35,260 two point five billion dollars and began 84 00:04:35,260 --> 00:04:37,240 the rearmament of the United States on a 85 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,020 colossal scale 86 00:04:40,629 --> 00:04:44,469 in 1981 the Cold War was getting very 87 00:04:44,469 --> 00:04:46,740 warm 88 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:50,980 as Reagan and Brezhnev squared up the US 89 00:04:50,980 --> 00:04:52,810 Air Force concluded that it urgently 90 00:04:52,810 --> 00:04:55,360 needed a replacement for its f15 an 91 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,020 Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF that 92 00:04:59,020 --> 00:05:03,850 would have no equal as American planners 93 00:05:03,850 --> 00:05:06,190 start to develop the concept of air land 94 00:05:06,190 --> 00:05:09,430 battle to fight World War three the u.s. 95 00:05:09,430 --> 00:05:12,160 air force starts to think about the kind 96 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,530 of equipment it wants to have when it 97 00:05:14,530 --> 00:05:18,100 comes time to fight the war at that time 98 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:20,620 in the secretive black world of advanced 99 00:05:20,620 --> 00:05:23,290 aviation development one technology had 100 00:05:23,290 --> 00:05:25,419 emerged at the forefront of all military 101 00:05:25,419 --> 00:05:28,900 aircraft development stealth during that 102 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:31,360 period the late 1970s of course in what 103 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:33,669 we call the black world in the in the 104 00:05:33,669 --> 00:05:35,770 world of secret programs there was a 105 00:05:35,770 --> 00:05:37,990 great effort going on to come up with 106 00:05:37,990 --> 00:05:41,200 counters to these new Soviet weapon 107 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:43,900 systems that could enable us to knock 108 00:05:43,900 --> 00:05:46,060 out their Sam system and that of course 109 00:05:46,060 --> 00:05:50,010 led to the development of the f-117 110 00:05:50,010 --> 00:05:52,410 analysis of air-to-air combat in Vietnam 111 00:05:52,410 --> 00:05:53,590 called 112 00:05:53,590 --> 00:05:56,020 the Red Baron study and kick-started the 113 00:05:56,020 --> 00:05:59,110 race for stealth an operational analysis 114 00:05:59,110 --> 00:06:01,780 study showed in Vietnam that most 115 00:06:01,780 --> 00:06:04,630 aircraft were killed by other aircraft 116 00:06:04,630 --> 00:06:07,060 that they hadn't seen so from this you 117 00:06:07,060 --> 00:06:10,090 get the idea that if the aircraft isn't 118 00:06:10,090 --> 00:06:12,710 seen it has a tremendous advantage 119 00:06:12,710 --> 00:06:15,470 air combat data from world war ii and 120 00:06:15,470 --> 00:06:17,900 korea had reinforced this need for 121 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:19,509 invisibility 122 00:06:19,509 --> 00:06:24,800 so from this in a process of operational 123 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,000 analysis the US Air Force learns that 124 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,680 what you really need to do is be 125 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,949 invisible to the enemy and that means 126 00:06:33,949 --> 00:06:36,800 that an aircraft is designed to be as 127 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,800 near as possible invisible to an enemy 128 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,009 fighter aircraft it's geometry is 129 00:06:43,009 --> 00:06:46,520 designed to give it a very low profile 130 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,780 that is to make it very invisible to an 131 00:06:49,780 --> 00:06:52,729 oncoming fighter aircraft using 132 00:06:52,729 --> 00:06:54,820 high-frequency fighter aircraft radar 133 00:06:54,820 --> 00:06:57,889 the principle of stealth technology is 134 00:06:57,889 --> 00:07:00,050 to literally make an aeroplane invisible 135 00:07:00,050 --> 00:07:04,580 to the enemy an aircraft's shape must 136 00:07:04,580 --> 00:07:07,009 reflect incoming radio waves away from 137 00:07:07,009 --> 00:07:10,150 the enemy radar rather than towards it 138 00:07:10,150 --> 00:07:12,919 to further increase low observable 139 00:07:12,919 --> 00:07:14,990 characteristics an aeroplane is then 140 00:07:14,990 --> 00:07:17,150 covered in materials that absorb radar 141 00:07:17,150 --> 00:07:19,789 signals further reducing its visibility 142 00:07:19,789 --> 00:07:22,780 on a radar screen 143 00:07:23,870 --> 00:07:26,190 stealth doesn't mean invisible 144 00:07:26,190 --> 00:07:30,360 it just means less visible operational 145 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,330 analysis shows that if you apply certain 146 00:07:33,330 --> 00:07:37,290 computer models to air-to-air combat the 147 00:07:37,290 --> 00:07:39,480 more stealthy aircraft the one that's 148 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:44,120 harder to see is likely or to win 149 00:07:47,830 --> 00:07:50,060 leading the way in stealth technology 150 00:07:50,060 --> 00:07:52,390 was Lockheed skunkworks 151 00:07:52,390 --> 00:07:55,580 in the late 1970s tell wasn't widely 152 00:07:55,580 --> 00:07:58,130 known outside of a few companies the 153 00:07:58,130 --> 00:08:00,850 ability to integrate stealth technology 154 00:08:00,850 --> 00:08:03,490 shaping for stealth and the materials 155 00:08:03,490 --> 00:08:06,440 was really only well known in two 156 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,980 companies it was Lockheed and Northrop 157 00:08:08,980 --> 00:08:13,840 in 1977 amid unprecedented security 158 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,220 Lockheed had flown a prototype of the 159 00:08:16,220 --> 00:08:18,980 world's first stealth fighter and by the 160 00:08:18,980 --> 00:08:22,570 1980s during Operation Just Cause its 161 00:08:22,570 --> 00:08:25,250 f-117 had helped to destroy general 162 00:08:25,250 --> 00:08:33,500 Noriega --zz regime in Panama now the US 163 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:35,479 Air Force decided that any new fighter 164 00:08:35,479 --> 00:08:37,849 must incorporate stealth technology and 165 00:08:37,849 --> 00:08:40,340 identified two other areas in which a 166 00:08:40,340 --> 00:08:42,470 future air superiority fighter should 167 00:08:42,470 --> 00:08:44,919 excel 168 00:08:49,070 --> 00:08:52,380 well at that stage of the game was clear 169 00:08:52,380 --> 00:08:54,590 that the Air Force wanted a stealthy 170 00:08:54,590 --> 00:08:58,560 fighter it was also clear that they 171 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:00,870 wanted an airplane that would 172 00:09:00,870 --> 00:09:02,990 supercruise in other words run 173 00:09:02,990 --> 00:09:05,970 supersonically without lighting off to 174 00:09:05,970 --> 00:09:09,480 afterburners and they didn't want to 175 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:12,470 sacrifice any of the classic fighter 176 00:09:12,470 --> 00:09:14,280 maneuverability so they wanted a fighter 177 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,100 that besides all the new technology 178 00:09:17,100 --> 00:09:20,160 would maneuver as well or better than 179 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:25,650 the f-15 in October 1982 representatives 180 00:09:25,650 --> 00:09:27,600 from fighter manufacturers met with the 181 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,000 US Air Force and began to identify the 182 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,560 specific must-haves for the new fighter 183 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:36,720 at the time there were eight contractors 184 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,460 of built combat aircraft in the States 185 00:09:38,460 --> 00:09:40,950 seven of those responded to a request 186 00:09:40,950 --> 00:09:44,160 for proposals from that period of 1983 187 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,940 to 85 or 86 was a process of refinement 188 00:09:47,940 --> 00:09:50,850 you know narrowing down the specific 189 00:09:50,850 --> 00:09:54,030 parameters it must be a supersonic 190 00:09:54,030 --> 00:09:56,460 cruise aircraft with a combat radius of 191 00:09:56,460 --> 00:09:58,830 seven to nine hundred miles with reduced 192 00:09:58,830 --> 00:10:01,530 observables if possible the aircraft 193 00:10:01,530 --> 00:10:02,970 would have to be able to operate on a 194 00:10:02,970 --> 00:10:05,790 2,000 foot runway and must be easier to 195 00:10:05,790 --> 00:10:08,770 maintain than an f-15 196 00:10:08,770 --> 00:10:11,740 the challenge had been issued now it was 197 00:10:11,740 --> 00:10:13,720 up to the finest aviation manufacturers 198 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,890 in the world to respond I'm a village 199 00:10:17,890 --> 00:10:21,010 optimist and I have to say that the 200 00:10:21,010 --> 00:10:23,980 requirements were very demanding but I 201 00:10:23,980 --> 00:10:27,910 didn't have any I didn't have any strong 202 00:10:27,910 --> 00:10:31,450 feeling that we couldn't do this the 203 00:10:31,450 --> 00:10:33,610 Advanced Tactical Fighter program was 204 00:10:33,610 --> 00:10:36,910 about to begin and the Raptor America's 205 00:10:36,910 --> 00:10:39,760 fifth-generation fighter was about to be 206 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:52,990 hatched by 1983 us-soviet relations had 207 00:10:52,990 --> 00:10:55,230 reached a new low 208 00:10:55,230 --> 00:10:58,029 following Leonid Brezhnev's death the 209 00:10:58,029 --> 00:11:01,149 Politburo now controlled by ex-kgb boss 210 00:11:01,149 --> 00:11:03,520 yuri and drop off had been labeled by 211 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,250 reagan as the focus of evil in the 212 00:11:06,250 --> 00:11:08,500 modern world 213 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:10,700 continuing his policy of rearmament 214 00:11:10,700 --> 00:11:13,220 Reagan announced plans for the Strategic 215 00:11:13,220 --> 00:11:16,340 Defense Initiative better known as Star 216 00:11:16,340 --> 00:11:21,160 Wars and Moscow reacted furiously 217 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,110 publishing polar prodigy in a Russian 218 00:11:26,110 --> 00:11:29,090 capoeira a marathon see a Kaboodle's 219 00:11:29,090 --> 00:11:33,560 Nina gusta get their image legally not 220 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:35,750 August when Korean Airlines flight 221 00:11:35,750 --> 00:11:37,970 double-oh-seven on its way to Seoul from 222 00:11:37,970 --> 00:11:40,070 New York strayed several hundred miles 223 00:11:40,070 --> 00:11:42,950 off course into Soviet airspace Russia 224 00:11:42,950 --> 00:11:47,540 acted a fighter was sent up and the 225 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:50,450 civilian airliner with 269 people on 226 00:11:50,450 --> 00:11:54,040 board was shot down 227 00:11:56,830 --> 00:12:01,000 a shooting down of kaal double-oh-seven 228 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,920 sent shockwaves around the world 229 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,230 straining international relations almost 230 00:12:05,230 --> 00:12:10,510 a breaking point but can we think of a 231 00:12:10,510 --> 00:12:13,090 regime that so broadly trumpets its 232 00:12:13,090 --> 00:12:15,310 vision of peace and global disarmament 233 00:12:15,310 --> 00:12:18,730 and yet so callously and quickly commits 234 00:12:18,730 --> 00:12:20,500 a terrorist act to sacrifice the lives 235 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:24,000 of innocent human beings 236 00:12:26,970 --> 00:12:29,170 Regan's reaction to the crisis 237 00:12:29,170 --> 00:12:31,030 strengthened u.s. conviction that 238 00:12:31,030 --> 00:12:32,680 stealth would now be the prime 239 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:35,730 requirement for America's new feisty 240 00:12:35,730 --> 00:12:38,320 some senior people the Pentagon looked 241 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,480 at the stealth requirements and decided 242 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,190 they were inadequate and they radically 243 00:12:42,190 --> 00:12:45,010 changed him so the stealth became a 244 00:12:45,010 --> 00:12:48,010 really major dominant requirement in the 245 00:12:48,010 --> 00:12:52,120 program in this politically charged 246 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,550 climate the US Air Force created its 247 00:12:54,550 --> 00:12:57,850 Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF system 248 00:12:57,850 --> 00:13:00,370 program office based at wright-patterson 249 00:13:00,370 --> 00:13:03,790 Air Force Base in Ohio Colonel Albert CP 250 00:13:03,790 --> 00:13:05,680 Carrillo is placed in charge of the 251 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:08,020 division one of the things we really 252 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:10,360 wanted was the ability to leverage 253 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,060 stealth in a high-performance fighter 254 00:13:13,060 --> 00:13:15,430 and we also wanted this high-performance 255 00:13:15,430 --> 00:13:17,800 fighter to still be capable of good 256 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,450 clothes in within visual range 257 00:13:19,450 --> 00:13:23,110 maneuvering capability in fact we wanted 258 00:13:23,110 --> 00:13:24,970 more than just existing capability in 259 00:13:24,970 --> 00:13:28,930 something the manufacturers are invited 260 00:13:28,930 --> 00:13:31,060 to submit concepts for an aircraft with 261 00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:33,280 an operational radius of 800 miles 262 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:35,680 enough to allow it to operate over the 263 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:37,810 entire central region of Europe from 264 00:13:37,810 --> 00:13:40,540 bases in central England it should have 265 00:13:40,540 --> 00:13:43,090 low observable characteristics and be 266 00:13:43,090 --> 00:13:45,760 able to cruise at Mach 1 point 5 for an 267 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:49,380 astonishing 600 miles 268 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:52,220 we weren't building an airplane for the 269 00:13:52,220 --> 00:13:53,990 1990s although that was what we were 270 00:13:53,990 --> 00:13:55,850 trying to do we were really building a 271 00:13:55,850 --> 00:13:57,560 fighter for the 21st century that could 272 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:00,500 take on all of the advanced threats that 273 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,630 the Soviet Union was likely to throw in 274 00:14:02,630 --> 00:14:05,600 itself all of the teams would have their 275 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:06,770 work cut out for them 276 00:14:06,770 --> 00:14:09,260 but importantly the military added 277 00:14:09,260 --> 00:14:14,360 another complicating factor at the end 278 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:16,370 of the concept demonstration phase the 279 00:14:16,370 --> 00:14:18,550 decision was made by the Air Force to 280 00:14:18,550 --> 00:14:21,830 launch a demonstration validation phase 281 00:14:21,830 --> 00:14:23,540 of the program that would involve 282 00:14:23,540 --> 00:14:27,470 building to flight demonstrators YF type 283 00:14:27,470 --> 00:14:30,640 airplanes that would then be evaluated 284 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,110 they didn't after that full armament 285 00:14:33,110 --> 00:14:34,610 they didn't have to have avionics they 286 00:14:34,610 --> 00:14:36,950 didn't have to have stealth coatings but 287 00:14:36,950 --> 00:14:38,810 essentially they were going to go out 288 00:14:38,810 --> 00:14:42,770 show us what you can do but building 289 00:14:42,770 --> 00:14:45,710 prototype aircraft is expensive and no 290 00:14:45,710 --> 00:14:47,540 one manufacturer could afford it on 291 00:14:47,540 --> 00:14:49,720 their own 292 00:14:50,140 --> 00:14:53,200 they all know that they must invest so 293 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,130 much money and developing that if they 294 00:14:57,130 --> 00:15:01,210 don't get the contract they're going to 295 00:15:01,210 --> 00:15:04,120 be so out of pocket it's gonna hurt the 296 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,990 company badly 297 00:15:07,060 --> 00:15:10,450 we Lockheed made a policy decision at 298 00:15:10,450 --> 00:15:12,790 the CEO level that we would seek teaming 299 00:15:12,790 --> 00:15:15,670 so the bottom line is we ended up 300 00:15:15,670 --> 00:15:18,910 deciding that we would team with Boeing 301 00:15:18,910 --> 00:15:22,390 and General Dynamics Fort Worth each 302 00:15:22,390 --> 00:15:24,670 manufacturer would submit a design for 303 00:15:24,670 --> 00:15:27,580 the demonstration valuation or Denville 304 00:15:27,580 --> 00:15:29,860 competition but had agreed that the 305 00:15:29,860 --> 00:15:31,390 winning company would be the prime 306 00:15:31,390 --> 00:15:33,390 contractor and its partners 307 00:15:33,390 --> 00:15:35,140 subcontracted to produce major 308 00:15:35,140 --> 00:15:37,320 components 309 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,670 everybody's investment will be at least 310 00:15:39,670 --> 00:15:42,550 partly repaid because everybody gets 311 00:15:42,550 --> 00:15:46,810 piece of the action seven designs for 312 00:15:46,810 --> 00:15:48,730 the Air Force competition was submitted 313 00:15:48,730 --> 00:15:53,800 for final evaluation all of the seven 314 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,420 contractors came in with designs that 315 00:15:55,420 --> 00:15:56,980 were very feasible and it could that 316 00:15:56,980 --> 00:15:58,870 could have been built the question was 317 00:15:58,870 --> 00:16:01,660 which were the best and then how did we 318 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:03,280 determined that they really were good 319 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,960 enough to manufacturers with strong 320 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:09,720 experience in stealth technology 321 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,480 Northrop with its b2 322 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:19,769 and Lockheed with its f-117 lead the way 323 00:16:20,279 --> 00:16:22,959 northrop's Advanced Tactical Fighter or 324 00:16:22,959 --> 00:16:25,689 ATF design was for an alien looking 325 00:16:25,689 --> 00:16:28,540 aircraft with diamond planform wings and 326 00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:31,869 huge V tails it was a design that 327 00:16:31,869 --> 00:16:35,920 stressed speed and stealth Northrop came 328 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,709 in with a an airplane that really from 329 00:16:38,709 --> 00:16:40,809 the very beginning look just like the Y 330 00:16:40,809 --> 00:16:43,860 of 23 that eventually was built as well 331 00:16:43,860 --> 00:16:46,239 Lockheed's entry echoed that of the 332 00:16:46,239 --> 00:16:50,019 f-117 it's vectored thrust Arrowhead 333 00:16:50,019 --> 00:16:53,230 shape trapezoidal wings and four tails 334 00:16:53,230 --> 00:16:55,089 ensure that the aircraft would be 335 00:16:55,089 --> 00:16:59,949 maneuverable the fact was that Lockheed 336 00:16:59,949 --> 00:17:02,049 and Northrop had significant advantages 337 00:17:02,049 --> 00:17:05,500 in the fact that they had built stealth 338 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:07,750 aircraft and flown them it's big 339 00:17:07,750 --> 00:17:10,270 credibility factor there 340 00:17:10,270 --> 00:17:14,650 on October 31st 1986 both Lockheed and 341 00:17:14,650 --> 00:17:17,230 Northrop ATF designs were declared the 342 00:17:17,230 --> 00:17:19,480 winners of the competition under the 343 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,880 terms of the dem val competition each 344 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,920 team would build two aircraft 345 00:17:26,510 --> 00:17:29,299 at the end of the process one of two 346 00:17:29,299 --> 00:17:31,280 designs would become America's new 347 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,640 Advanced Tactical Fighter costing 348 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:36,860 billions of dollars the new fighter 349 00:17:36,860 --> 00:17:39,350 would make a technological leap into the 350 00:17:39,350 --> 00:17:46,160 21st century just nine months after 351 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,559 being selected to build to demonstration 352 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:50,770 valuation fighters for the US Air Force 353 00:17:50,770 --> 00:17:53,480 Lockheed shocked everyone and scrapped 354 00:17:53,480 --> 00:18:01,280 its original design in July of 87 we 355 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,710 looked at our design at that time and we 356 00:18:03,710 --> 00:18:05,030 looked at what we thought it would weigh 357 00:18:05,030 --> 00:18:08,510 and how it would perform and with no 358 00:18:08,510 --> 00:18:11,799 input from the Air Force we decided to 359 00:18:11,799 --> 00:18:16,309 start over so between July 13th of 87 360 00:18:16,309 --> 00:18:20,690 and mid-october that year basically 361 00:18:20,690 --> 00:18:24,110 that's where the f-22 came into the 362 00:18:24,110 --> 00:18:27,080 world in a hectic three-month process 363 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,360 with help from its partners lockheed 364 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:30,760 produced a completely different 365 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,940 configuration with a clipped delta wing 366 00:18:33,940 --> 00:18:37,179 we changed to clip diamond wings which 367 00:18:37,179 --> 00:18:41,090 gave us almost the same aerodynamic 368 00:18:41,090 --> 00:18:42,860 performance but a lot lower structural 369 00:18:42,860 --> 00:18:45,169 weight we did the same thing with the 370 00:18:45,169 --> 00:18:47,960 trapezoidal horizontal tails and the 371 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,720 same thing with the verticals 372 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,510 over the next four years at a cost of 373 00:18:53,510 --> 00:18:56,210 just over two billion dollars America's 374 00:18:56,210 --> 00:18:58,190 tactical fighter competition became the 375 00:18:58,190 --> 00:19:01,290 largest program of its kind 376 00:19:01,290 --> 00:19:04,710 and in 1990 just months after the 377 00:19:04,710 --> 00:19:07,110 disintegration of the Soviet Union the 378 00:19:07,110 --> 00:19:09,540 shapes of the two rival designs were 379 00:19:09,540 --> 00:19:13,110 finally unveiled and now ladies and 380 00:19:13,110 --> 00:19:15,870 gentlemen I proudly present to you the 381 00:19:15,870 --> 00:19:19,110 yf-22 a prototype for US air superiority 382 00:19:19,110 --> 00:19:22,820 in the 21st century 383 00:19:30,230 --> 00:19:33,260 on behalf of the entire team I am 384 00:19:33,260 --> 00:19:37,210 honored to present the yf-23 385 00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:47,560 Northrop's version called the yf-23 386 00:19:47,560 --> 00:19:51,100 closely resembled its original design 387 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:53,450 well it was the most unusual looking at 388 00:19:53,450 --> 00:19:57,380 very futuristic it had twin details as 389 00:19:57,380 --> 00:19:58,970 opposed to what's called a cruciform 390 00:19:58,970 --> 00:20:00,980 twin verticals and twin horizontals I 391 00:20:00,980 --> 00:20:04,790 had a large trapezoidal wing and it had 392 00:20:04,790 --> 00:20:07,010 a very slender shape and looked at for 393 00:20:07,010 --> 00:20:10,910 me a John view in contrast Lockheed's 394 00:20:10,910 --> 00:20:13,850 design called the yf-22 seemed 395 00:20:13,850 --> 00:20:16,340 surprisingly conventional with four tail 396 00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:19,610 surfaces vectored thrust a broad solid 397 00:20:19,610 --> 00:20:23,210 body and a conventional wing but unlike 398 00:20:23,210 --> 00:20:25,340 Lockheed's other stealth aircraft the 399 00:20:25,340 --> 00:20:28,880 f-117 radar absorbent materials were not 400 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:31,550 applied over the whole of the FA 22 but 401 00:20:31,550 --> 00:20:34,520 used selectively on its edges cavities 402 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:38,650 and crucial surface areas 403 00:20:40,730 --> 00:20:42,740 you walk around the airplane everywhere 404 00:20:42,740 --> 00:20:45,440 you look about what you see is something 405 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,110 that's designed to do the job in the 406 00:20:48,110 --> 00:20:50,410 most efficient and effective way and no 407 00:20:50,410 --> 00:20:55,820 wasted space no wasted capability it's 408 00:20:55,820 --> 00:20:58,490 truly an airplane it's intended and has 409 00:20:58,490 --> 00:21:02,590 been optimized for its job 410 00:21:03,790 --> 00:21:07,570 the f-22 carries its weapons internally 411 00:21:07,570 --> 00:21:10,010 for weapons bays are hidden in the 412 00:21:10,010 --> 00:21:13,160 central mid-body section six missiles 413 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:14,840 can be carried in the ventral Bay's 414 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,169 which are covered with bi-fold doors the 415 00:21:18,169 --> 00:21:20,780 side bays will each hold one Sidewinder 416 00:21:20,780 --> 00:21:23,590 missile carried on a trapeze launcher 417 00:21:23,590 --> 00:21:26,750 the mid-body section also houses the 418 00:21:26,750 --> 00:21:29,240 fighters landing gear and complex in met 419 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:34,070 ducts right from day one on the f-22 we 420 00:21:34,070 --> 00:21:36,880 decided to put s-shaped 421 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,590 Inlet ducts on it so the airplane is 422 00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:41,780 built with s-shape Inlet ducts so that 423 00:21:41,780 --> 00:21:45,980 there's no way a radar is ever seeing 424 00:21:45,980 --> 00:21:49,200 the forward face of the jet engine 425 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,720 attached to the mid-body is the four 426 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:53,789 body which accommodates the cockpit and 427 00:21:53,789 --> 00:21:58,889 advanced avionics both the yf-23 and the 428 00:21:58,889 --> 00:22:01,740 yf-22 are impressive-looking machines 429 00:22:01,740 --> 00:22:04,679 but their performance still needs to be 430 00:22:04,679 --> 00:22:07,620 tested the most crucial stage of the 431 00:22:07,620 --> 00:22:10,679 competition is still to come the flight 432 00:22:10,679 --> 00:22:13,190 testing 433 00:22:19,620 --> 00:22:22,750 Northrop was first in the air in August 434 00:22:22,750 --> 00:22:26,590 1990 flown by Paul Metz the yf-23 got 435 00:22:26,590 --> 00:22:28,980 airborne 436 00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:56,359 the test was a huge success but Lockheed 437 00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,730 was quick to respond and on September 438 00:22:58,730 --> 00:23:00,889 the 29th at Edwards Air Force Base in 439 00:23:00,889 --> 00:23:01,909 California 440 00:23:01,909 --> 00:23:04,340 Lockheed chief test pilot Dave Ferguson 441 00:23:04,340 --> 00:23:06,649 prepared the raptor for its maiden 442 00:23:06,649 --> 00:23:13,970 flight I pulled on her runway and looked 443 00:23:13,970 --> 00:23:16,039 down the runway it was just a feeling of 444 00:23:16,039 --> 00:23:17,779 really relief and that we're going to do 445 00:23:17,779 --> 00:23:22,879 it and I ran the airplane up to 80% 446 00:23:22,879 --> 00:23:26,049 military power 447 00:23:26,830 --> 00:23:30,340 and acceleration was just amazing I mean 448 00:23:30,340 --> 00:23:34,230 it was like an f15 in full afterburner 449 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,050 and I thought the only thing in this 450 00:23:41,050 --> 00:23:42,730 airplane that's ever flown before it was 451 00:23:42,730 --> 00:23:44,920 me and I think in the back of my mind I 452 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:46,990 was saying please fly please fly when I 453 00:23:46,990 --> 00:23:48,790 pulled your nose up and it just lifted 454 00:23:48,790 --> 00:23:50,910 off 455 00:24:09,830 --> 00:24:13,519 I was fully aware we had a wonderful 456 00:24:13,519 --> 00:24:16,490 flying airplane and the handling 457 00:24:16,490 --> 00:24:18,500 qualities in the takeoff and landing 458 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:20,299 their power approach as we call it were 459 00:24:20,299 --> 00:24:27,080 just absolutely superb when I landed in 460 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,419 Sherman at the airplane I said hey boss 461 00:24:29,419 --> 00:24:33,230 we really have a winner here the way the 462 00:24:33,230 --> 00:24:35,480 f-22 performed was no surprise to 463 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,730 anybody who was involved in the program 464 00:24:37,730 --> 00:24:41,299 not at all I mean my money has been on 465 00:24:41,299 --> 00:24:46,279 the f-22 from early 1985 it'll be there 466 00:24:46,279 --> 00:24:50,630 till I'm gone over the next three months 467 00:24:50,630 --> 00:24:53,120 the Raptor underwent a whole series of 468 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:56,360 tests the Air Force required both teams 469 00:24:56,360 --> 00:24:59,200 to give them performance projections and 470 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:01,519 then they were going to actually compare 471 00:25:01,519 --> 00:25:02,720 that with what the airplanes actually 472 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,059 did in flight subsonic supersonic at 473 00:25:05,059 --> 00:25:07,470 different altitudes and so forth 474 00:25:07,470 --> 00:25:09,600 the winner of this stage would earn a 475 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,039 contract for 650 aircraft the decision 476 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:15,690 would hinge not just on what the 477 00:25:15,690 --> 00:25:17,820 contractors promised but on the Air 478 00:25:17,820 --> 00:25:19,769 Force's confidence in their ability to 479 00:25:19,769 --> 00:25:21,710 deliver 480 00:25:21,710 --> 00:25:25,280 we expected to get a lot of flying done 481 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,220 in the 90 days we actually got 72 482 00:25:28,220 --> 00:25:30,350 flights out of two airplanes in 90 days 483 00:25:30,350 --> 00:25:37,030 and that is about as good as you can do 484 00:25:37,030 --> 00:25:39,950 during flight testing the Raptor had 485 00:25:39,950 --> 00:25:43,190 beaten northrop yf-23 in a number of 486 00:25:43,190 --> 00:25:46,690 crucial performance areas 487 00:25:48,180 --> 00:25:50,880 we'd focused on the supersonic testing 488 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:54,120 including super cruising and we did 489 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,740 something that Northrop didn't do and 490 00:25:55,740 --> 00:25:57,120 that is we did launch a couple of 491 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:00,450 missiles we launched a Sidewinder out of 492 00:26:00,450 --> 00:26:02,880 the internal side bay on our prototype 493 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,000 airplanes and we launched an AM Ram 494 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:07,680 long-range air-to-air missile out of the 495 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:12,900 internal web space the yf-22 had clearly 496 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:14,760 shown that in every category 497 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,010 it was far superior to any existing 498 00:26:17,010 --> 00:26:22,020 fighter the Air Force was was very 499 00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:23,910 impressed by what Lockheed had done 500 00:26:23,910 --> 00:26:25,290 their flight test program was very 501 00:26:25,290 --> 00:26:29,700 aggressive they flew hard and fast they 502 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:32,040 flew many more hours and sorties than 503 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,170 Northrop did and all of that gave the 504 00:26:34,170 --> 00:26:35,850 Air Force confidence that they knew what 505 00:26:35,850 --> 00:26:37,830 they were doing high confidence and they 506 00:26:37,830 --> 00:26:41,390 could build a superior airplane 507 00:26:43,770 --> 00:26:47,440 but it would be events in 1991 that 508 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,300 would carve out the Raptors future 509 00:26:53,970 --> 00:26:56,830 22 minutes after midnight on January the 510 00:26:56,830 --> 00:26:58,740 17th 1991 511 00:26:58,740 --> 00:27:02,740 Lockheed's stealth f-117 spearheaded 512 00:27:02,740 --> 00:27:04,660 u.s. stripes against Saddam Hussein's 513 00:27:04,660 --> 00:27:09,010 regime the performance of Lockheed 514 00:27:09,010 --> 00:27:11,110 stealth bombers during Operation Desert 515 00:27:11,110 --> 00:27:13,600 Storm would give the company and its 516 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,090 aircraft some priceless publicity 517 00:27:16,090 --> 00:27:21,850 I think clearly Lockheed was benefited 518 00:27:21,850 --> 00:27:25,570 in 1991 by the Gulf War where the f-117 519 00:27:25,570 --> 00:27:28,210 was it was a star performer and there 520 00:27:28,210 --> 00:27:31,720 were skeptics of stealth even as late as 521 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,920 that that had to be beneficial to the 522 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,970 program but another aircraft also 523 00:27:39,970 --> 00:27:42,190 emerged from the Gulf War with a glowing 524 00:27:42,190 --> 00:27:44,670 reputation 525 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:46,760 you 526 00:27:49,350 --> 00:27:52,870 the f-15 the aircraft destined to be 527 00:27:52,870 --> 00:27:55,390 replaced by the ATF had emphatically 528 00:27:55,390 --> 00:27:57,730 confirmed its status as the foremost air 529 00:27:57,730 --> 00:28:02,710 superiority fighter in the world now it 530 00:28:02,710 --> 00:28:04,180 appeared that the need for an advanced 531 00:28:04,180 --> 00:28:06,940 stealthy fighter the f-22 might be 532 00:28:06,940 --> 00:28:10,540 totally unfounded it's all like the f-15 533 00:28:10,540 --> 00:28:13,510 wasn't any good it's good aircraft it's 534 00:28:13,510 --> 00:28:16,030 still a good aircraft it will be a good 535 00:28:16,030 --> 00:28:18,340 aircraft for years to come you could 536 00:28:18,340 --> 00:28:20,260 even just chew up the factory and keep 537 00:28:20,260 --> 00:28:22,240 building new f50 - why not 538 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,690 yeah but not everyone agrees the big 539 00:28:25,690 --> 00:28:28,600 weakness in their argument is they are 540 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:30,100 making a statement about world 541 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:32,320 conditions today and what the threats 542 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,870 are today the real issue is what 543 00:28:34,870 --> 00:28:39,010 capability you want for 2025 or 2030 the 544 00:28:39,010 --> 00:28:41,350 people who say you don't need this they 545 00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:42,880 think the world is not going to change 546 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,880 in the next 20 years and that is a hell 547 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:51,010 of an assertion by April 1991 bogged 548 00:28:51,010 --> 00:28:54,100 down by the f-15 debate the US Air Force 549 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:56,200 prepares to announce the winner of the 550 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,020 Advanced Tactical Fighter contract but 551 00:28:59,020 --> 00:29:01,060 would the Raptor emerge from the 552 00:29:01,060 --> 00:29:04,770 controversy unscathed 553 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:15,240 on April the 1st 1991 the US Air Force 554 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,580 awarded a nine and a half billion dollar 555 00:29:17,580 --> 00:29:20,040 contract to the Lockheed Boeing General 556 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,380 Dynamics team responsible for the 557 00:29:22,380 --> 00:29:27,570 winning f-22 Raptor design having won 558 00:29:27,570 --> 00:29:29,610 the contract Lockheed announced that it 559 00:29:29,610 --> 00:29:31,650 intended to locate the f-22 s 560 00:29:31,650 --> 00:29:33,690 headquarters in Georgia where the 561 00:29:33,690 --> 00:29:36,559 Raptors forward fuselage would be built 562 00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:39,510 General Dynamics were build the f-22s 563 00:29:39,510 --> 00:29:42,200 mid-body section in Fort Worth Texas and 564 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,669 Boeing would manufacture the wings and 565 00:29:44,669 --> 00:29:48,679 tail in Seattle Washington 566 00:29:51,180 --> 00:29:53,640 but just eight months after the contract 567 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,830 was awarded the program hit its first 568 00:29:55,830 --> 00:29:59,930 major snag we lost one of the yf-22 569 00:29:59,930 --> 00:30:02,100 fortunately the test pilot who was a 570 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,750 good friend of mine then and now walked 571 00:30:03,750 --> 00:30:09,150 away unharmed during preliminary testing 572 00:30:09,150 --> 00:30:10,650 the unthinkable happened 573 00:30:10,650 --> 00:30:14,730 a yf-22 flown by Tom Morgan fell crashed 574 00:30:14,730 --> 00:30:18,050 just after takeoff 575 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:22,809 as this unique footage shows the 576 00:30:22,809 --> 00:30:24,460 aircraft's thrust vectoring system 577 00:30:24,460 --> 00:30:29,220 forces it to belly land on the runway a 578 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,530 key element of the Raptors design thrust 579 00:30:32,530 --> 00:30:34,960 vectoring uses movable exhaust nozzles 580 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,179 to alter the angle of thrust from the 581 00:30:37,179 --> 00:30:39,860 two Pratt & Whitney engines 582 00:30:39,860 --> 00:30:43,400 as the Raptor makes its low-level flyby 583 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,040 Tom Morgan felt keeps the stick forward 584 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:49,130 to keep the nose down but as the landing 585 00:30:49,130 --> 00:30:51,440 gear is retracted the thrust vectoring 586 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,110 engages and pushes the aircraft towards 587 00:30:54,110 --> 00:30:56,450 the tarmac as the pilot struggles to 588 00:30:56,450 --> 00:30:58,370 correct this change in direction the 589 00:30:58,370 --> 00:31:05,600 Raptor C soars the fundamental error 590 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:07,309 there had nothing to do with the 591 00:31:07,309 --> 00:31:09,650 airplane it had to do with the fact that 592 00:31:09,650 --> 00:31:13,070 you don't fly a green airplane and fly 593 00:31:13,070 --> 00:31:15,740 it at low speeds at low altitudes the 594 00:31:15,740 --> 00:31:17,990 cause of that accident was stupidity on 595 00:31:17,990 --> 00:31:19,370 the part of the management it had 596 00:31:19,370 --> 00:31:21,880 nothing to do with technology 597 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,080 despite the loss of the stealth aircraft 598 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,929 the program had achieved its major goals 599 00:31:29,210 --> 00:31:32,690 ten million man-hours of analysis four 600 00:31:32,690 --> 00:31:34,760 thousand hours of radar testing and 601 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,340 hundreds of hours of flight testing had 602 00:31:37,340 --> 00:31:38,660 gone into the development of the 603 00:31:38,660 --> 00:31:41,240 aircraft even before construction was 604 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,990 given the going 605 00:31:44,230 --> 00:31:48,020 in fact the f-22 has accomplished more 606 00:31:48,020 --> 00:31:50,330 flight testing than any other fighter 607 00:31:50,330 --> 00:31:55,730 prior to full-scale production the first 608 00:31:55,730 --> 00:31:58,789 fa20 to built for the US Air Force was 609 00:31:58,789 --> 00:32:01,299 unveiled in a ceremony on April the 9th 610 00:32:01,299 --> 00:32:04,010 1997 at the company's headquarters in 611 00:32:04,010 --> 00:32:06,760 Marietta Georgia 612 00:32:09,570 --> 00:32:12,129 now Air Force pilots would get the 613 00:32:12,129 --> 00:32:13,840 opportunity to check up the new aircraft 614 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:19,179 for themselves I would call the Raptor 615 00:32:19,179 --> 00:32:20,830 the Miss America while aircraft it's got 616 00:32:20,830 --> 00:32:22,419 the talent it's got the bikini contest 617 00:32:22,419 --> 00:32:24,940 one it's beautiful it's got all the 618 00:32:24,940 --> 00:32:26,980 capabilities it really wins the show in 619 00:32:26,980 --> 00:32:30,340 every aspect the airplane is eye 620 00:32:30,340 --> 00:32:33,669 watering it it does everything the pilot 621 00:32:33,669 --> 00:32:36,700 asked of it and it is very good at what 622 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:40,529 it does first flown by the Air Force in 623 00:32:40,529 --> 00:32:43,539 1997 pilots at Edwards Air Force Base 624 00:32:43,539 --> 00:32:46,450 have surpassed 2,000 flight test hours 625 00:32:46,450 --> 00:32:50,309 in more than 900 missions 626 00:32:54,130 --> 00:32:57,400 the first time I went out one effe 22 me 627 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,350 against four f-16s and they told me what 628 00:33:02,350 --> 00:33:03,490 they were going to do they were going to 629 00:33:03,490 --> 00:33:05,890 do everything possible to defeat my 630 00:33:05,890 --> 00:33:09,850 systems and I watched exactly what they 631 00:33:09,850 --> 00:33:13,500 did the entire time and shot them all 632 00:33:14,630 --> 00:33:16,640 it was almost too easy now it's almost 633 00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,750 laughing in the cockpit 634 00:33:20,410 --> 00:33:23,240 one of the key advances in the Raptors 635 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,730 design is its advanced cockpit and 636 00:33:25,730 --> 00:33:31,190 integrated avionics systems but I think 637 00:33:31,190 --> 00:33:32,840 really where the Raptor gets its amazing 638 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,630 capability is the fusion of all of the 639 00:33:35,630 --> 00:33:37,190 different sensors on the aircraft you 640 00:33:37,190 --> 00:33:39,830 have a tactical scope that combines the 641 00:33:39,830 --> 00:33:41,390 information of all the other sensors on 642 00:33:41,390 --> 00:33:43,310 the aircraft into one display for the 643 00:33:43,310 --> 00:33:45,620 pilot so as a pilot you don't have to 644 00:33:45,620 --> 00:33:48,350 sort through the radar or another sensor 645 00:33:48,350 --> 00:33:49,640 to see what's going on around you 646 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,160 information this power and the way this 647 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,050 airplane displays information to you it 648 00:33:54,050 --> 00:33:55,250 gives you knowledge of the battlespace 649 00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:57,740 it's all about seeing what's out there 650 00:33:57,740 --> 00:33:59,180 in front of you and being able to make 651 00:33:59,180 --> 00:34:01,370 decisions about what to engage when to 652 00:34:01,370 --> 00:34:04,310 engage and how to engage it I'd say 653 00:34:04,310 --> 00:34:07,490 integrated avionics does two things for 654 00:34:07,490 --> 00:34:07,820 me 655 00:34:07,820 --> 00:34:10,400 number one it makes me a lot safer it 656 00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,159 gives me less chance to crash my jet it 657 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:15,380 also makes every pilot who flies this 658 00:34:15,380 --> 00:34:17,900 aircraft more deadly instead of having 659 00:34:17,900 --> 00:34:20,659 to do six or eight steps to achieve a 660 00:34:20,659 --> 00:34:24,699 kill you really only have to do one 661 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,070 the raptor carries a formidable array of 662 00:34:28,070 --> 00:34:33,918 ordnance all of the Raptors weapons are 663 00:34:33,918 --> 00:34:36,980 housed inside the aircraft two bays at 664 00:34:36,980 --> 00:34:38,780 the bottom of the plane utilize a 665 00:34:38,780 --> 00:34:41,300 pneumatic style hydraulic launcher that 666 00:34:41,300 --> 00:34:43,159 literally punched the missiles or 667 00:34:43,159 --> 00:34:45,830 Jaden's out of the aircraft with a force 668 00:34:45,830 --> 00:34:51,168 of 40 G and to side Bay's how's 669 00:34:51,168 --> 00:34:54,139 air-to-air missiles here a trapeze 670 00:34:54,139 --> 00:34:56,210 launcher moves the missile outside the 671 00:34:56,210 --> 00:34:58,580 airframe very rapidly a fraction of a 672 00:34:58,580 --> 00:35:02,050 second before the missile is fired and 673 00:35:02,050 --> 00:35:04,700 to complement the Raptors armament of 674 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:07,040 eight missiles the fighter also has a 675 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,160 gun at one point in the evolution of the 676 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,680 advanced tactical fighter program the US 677 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,360 Air Force had raised the question of 678 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,370 eliminating the gun to save weight 679 00:35:19,270 --> 00:35:22,210 I think that the designers of the FA 22 680 00:35:22,210 --> 00:35:24,520 realized mistakes of the past like the F 681 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,350 for initially being designed without a 682 00:35:26,350 --> 00:35:28,240 gun and realize that you should never 683 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:30,760 say never about a threat that you're 684 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:32,170 going to face or a situation you're 685 00:35:32,170 --> 00:35:34,000 gonna find yourself in and so the raptor 686 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,400 has designed itself a gun will anybody 687 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,110 get close enough for us to use the gun 688 00:35:38,110 --> 00:35:41,500 well hopefully not probably not by the 689 00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:44,230 late 90s pilots in the Raptor program 690 00:35:44,230 --> 00:35:46,240 were convinced that their aircraft was 691 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:48,850 made of the right stuff that would 692 00:35:48,850 --> 00:35:51,070 easily be able to outperform and destroy 693 00:35:51,070 --> 00:35:54,030 any other fighter in existence 694 00:35:54,030 --> 00:35:56,370 it is the sum of the parts that makes 695 00:35:56,370 --> 00:35:59,460 the FA 22 so capable probably most 696 00:35:59,460 --> 00:36:01,670 important in my eyes is the stealth 697 00:36:01,670 --> 00:36:05,130 having an aircraft that nobody can see 698 00:36:05,130 --> 00:36:07,560 is just a tremendous tremendous 699 00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,920 advantage the speed the maneuverability 700 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,370 the precision all those factors are 701 00:36:14,370 --> 00:36:16,560 incredible also so when you put 702 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,720 everything together the Raptor is just 703 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:20,940 incredible 704 00:36:20,940 --> 00:36:23,790 but this belief was exclusively based on 705 00:36:23,790 --> 00:36:26,040 controlled flight and missile firing 706 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,670 exercises what the Raptors pilots really 707 00:36:29,670 --> 00:36:32,819 needed was combat experience and they 708 00:36:32,819 --> 00:36:37,650 were about to get it before the FA 22 709 00:36:37,650 --> 00:36:40,020 Raptor enters operational service with 710 00:36:40,020 --> 00:36:42,750 the US Air Force in the autumn of 2005 711 00:36:42,750 --> 00:36:45,089 it will have completed thousands of 712 00:36:45,089 --> 00:36:48,600 hours of vigorous combat testing 713 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,880 but since Desert Storm critics of the 714 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,820 f-22 program claim that the f-15 Eagle 715 00:36:54,820 --> 00:36:57,160 destined to be replaced by the Raptor 716 00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,740 already has the attributes necessary to 717 00:36:59,740 --> 00:37:01,420 remain the world's pre-eminent air 718 00:37:01,420 --> 00:37:03,970 superiority fighter well into the new 719 00:37:03,970 --> 00:37:06,180 millennium 720 00:37:11,170 --> 00:37:16,050 it is a view dismissed by the US efforts 721 00:37:16,050 --> 00:37:20,880 if you look at the f-15 the f-18 and 722 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,330 compare it with existing fighters that 723 00:37:24,330 --> 00:37:27,600 are sold around the world today you'll 724 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:29,700 find that today we're almost at Perry if 725 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:32,510 we ever run up against an enemy that has 726 00:37:32,510 --> 00:37:35,940 the ability in terms of the aircrew to 727 00:37:35,940 --> 00:37:39,390 use those enemy fighters we will have a 728 00:37:39,390 --> 00:37:43,040 tough time with the current generation 729 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,200 the f-15 is a great aircraft and in 730 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:47,970 air-to-air it is outstanding however 731 00:37:47,970 --> 00:37:50,490 with the production of new fighters that 732 00:37:50,490 --> 00:37:53,370 are being produced today and also some 733 00:37:53,370 --> 00:37:55,290 service to air threats there are 734 00:37:55,290 --> 00:37:57,090 situations in the f-15 that would make 735 00:37:57,090 --> 00:37:59,420 me nervous 736 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,190 in March 2003 supporters of the f-15 got 737 00:38:08,190 --> 00:38:10,170 the opportunity to see whether or not 738 00:38:10,170 --> 00:38:12,120 the eagle was still the best fighter in 739 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:21,300 the sky five f-15s would go head-to-head 740 00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:24,830 with a single Raptor 741 00:38:25,530 --> 00:38:27,940 although no missiles would be used 742 00:38:27,940 --> 00:38:30,220 during the exercise the sorties would 743 00:38:30,220 --> 00:38:33,310 closely resemble actual combat no 744 00:38:33,310 --> 00:38:35,700 quarter would be given by either side 745 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:38,800 this was a kill-or-be-killed 746 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:42,190 exercise there were five of us Ares in 747 00:38:42,190 --> 00:38:45,160 and me and my biggest concern was 748 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,940 running out of weapons too soon 749 00:38:47,940 --> 00:38:51,460 all five f-15s are flown by experienced 750 00:38:51,460 --> 00:38:55,540 f-22 pilots one by one the rapt brings 751 00:38:55,540 --> 00:39:00,340 them down I could never see them I never 752 00:39:00,340 --> 00:39:02,980 knew that they were there and I died you 753 00:39:02,980 --> 00:39:05,310 got stuck 754 00:39:05,980 --> 00:39:08,170 roll up I could hear him on the radio 755 00:39:08,170 --> 00:39:10,869 calling his simulated missile shots Fox 756 00:39:10,869 --> 00:39:15,250 tube and knowing that this was getting 757 00:39:15,250 --> 00:39:16,869 really unnerving because I could also 758 00:39:16,869 --> 00:39:19,150 tell his range was was closing rapidly 759 00:39:19,150 --> 00:39:26,740 on me I don't think anybody ever saw me 760 00:39:26,740 --> 00:39:27,609 the entire time 761 00:39:27,609 --> 00:39:29,550 that while we were on the air space 762 00:39:29,550 --> 00:39:32,970 bandit bandit 763 00:39:32,990 --> 00:39:35,450 could not find him no matter what I did 764 00:39:35,450 --> 00:39:37,280 and the next time was when he flew 765 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,480 directly over the top of my hair from my 766 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,320 soaring vision 767 00:39:42,860 --> 00:39:45,110 I know firsthand from flying the Raptor 768 00:39:45,110 --> 00:39:46,700 against other aircraft and flying other 769 00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:49,280 aircraft against the Raptor that it's 770 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,330 like clubbing baby seals it's so easy 771 00:39:52,330 --> 00:39:54,830 the first indication you have that the 772 00:39:54,830 --> 00:39:58,040 net pay 22 is out in your area of 773 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,080 responsibility is when you are in your 774 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:02,000 parachute heading down towards earth and 775 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:03,380 your your jet is falling a little bit 776 00:40:03,380 --> 00:40:06,130 faster than you are 777 00:40:06,670 --> 00:40:10,810 in combat testing with f-15s the fa 22 778 00:40:10,810 --> 00:40:12,790 Raptor has emphatically proven its 779 00:40:12,790 --> 00:40:15,300 doubters wrong 780 00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:17,880 there been times when the rapture has 781 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:22,230 gone up to vs. 8 against f15 and it ends 782 00:40:22,230 --> 00:40:24,539 up being boring for the adversaries 783 00:40:24,539 --> 00:40:27,079 because no matter what they do they die 784 00:40:27,079 --> 00:40:29,700 having flown the f-15 and now having 785 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:32,250 flown the Raptor and seeing combat I 786 00:40:32,250 --> 00:40:33,270 would not want to be on the receiving 787 00:40:33,270 --> 00:40:37,140 end of what the fa 23 was capable we 788 00:40:37,140 --> 00:40:39,599 will take on anything any combination of 789 00:40:39,599 --> 00:40:43,020 the latest the latest aircraft that we 790 00:40:43,020 --> 00:40:44,789 can throw it ourselves and we usually 791 00:40:44,789 --> 00:40:52,079 win today 27 fa 22 Raptors have been 792 00:40:52,079 --> 00:40:54,450 delivered to the US air force and are in 793 00:40:54,450 --> 00:40:56,849 limited operation at Edwards Nellis and 794 00:40:56,849 --> 00:41:01,410 Tyndall Air Force bases many more will 795 00:41:01,410 --> 00:41:03,359 follow 796 00:41:03,359 --> 00:41:05,920 the air force has agreed to a final 797 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,730 production run of almost 300 aircraft I 798 00:41:08,730 --> 00:41:13,450 think 300 FA 20s will tip the scales of 799 00:41:13,450 --> 00:41:16,090 any conflict in our favor I think that 800 00:41:16,090 --> 00:41:20,170 any country who sees 300 FA 22s flying 801 00:41:20,170 --> 00:41:21,820 towards it has got to get a little 802 00:41:21,820 --> 00:41:24,000 nervous 803 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,140 Lockheed expects that a full production 804 00:41:26,140 --> 00:41:28,750 rate of 60 aircraft per year will have 805 00:41:28,750 --> 00:41:31,450 been achieved by the end of 2004 and 806 00:41:31,450 --> 00:41:33,820 with components and parts coming from 807 00:41:33,820 --> 00:41:36,520 four to six congressional states the fa 808 00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:43,390 22 is truly a national effort costing a 809 00:41:43,390 --> 00:41:46,300 massive 93 million dollars each the 810 00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:48,369 Raptor is certainly the world's most 811 00:41:48,369 --> 00:41:50,859 expensive fighter aircraft but for many 812 00:41:50,859 --> 00:41:53,510 it is money well spent 813 00:41:53,510 --> 00:41:55,520 yeah this is something special this was 814 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,070 not like an f15 on steroids or an f-16 815 00:41:58,070 --> 00:42:00,410 on steroids this is the real thing with 816 00:42:00,410 --> 00:42:02,840 a leap of technology that's orders of 817 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,160 magnitude better than what we have there 818 00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:08,510 the interesting thing about the f-22 819 00:42:08,510 --> 00:42:11,810 though is it is a fixed volume with an 820 00:42:11,810 --> 00:42:14,810 infinitely increasing ability in terms 821 00:42:14,810 --> 00:42:16,970 of its computer capabilities if you 822 00:42:16,970 --> 00:42:18,740 think about the airplane has fixed holes 823 00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:21,170 in the sides of the fuselage where 824 00:42:21,170 --> 00:42:24,290 computers sit today in the future there 825 00:42:24,290 --> 00:42:26,480 will be more computer capacity that 826 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,400 requires less power going in that same 827 00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:31,250 physical hole so the fa20 to over the 828 00:42:31,250 --> 00:42:33,020 course of life will become a more and 829 00:42:33,020 --> 00:42:34,730 more flexible and warm more potent 830 00:42:34,730 --> 00:42:39,640 machine as computer capacity increases 831 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,890 America's fa20 to Raptor was created out 832 00:42:44,890 --> 00:42:47,230 of the Cold War fear that Russian made 833 00:42:47,230 --> 00:42:51,570 fighters would sweep aside the f-15 834 00:42:52,859 --> 00:42:55,780 but the world has changed since the 835 00:42:55,780 --> 00:42:59,099 frigid days of the Cold War 836 00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,800 the Soviet Union no longer exists and 837 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,260 the f-15 has more than earned the fear 838 00:43:06,260 --> 00:43:08,690 and respected commands as the current 839 00:43:08,690 --> 00:43:12,520 frontline fighter for the US Air Force 840 00:43:14,299 --> 00:43:18,890 but the Raptor Lockheed's fa20 - looks 841 00:43:18,890 --> 00:43:21,619 all set to carry US air force doctrine 842 00:43:21,619 --> 00:43:28,249 well into the 21st century I'd be 843 00:43:28,249 --> 00:43:30,589 terrified to to go into the arena with 844 00:43:30,589 --> 00:43:31,489 something like that 845 00:43:31,489 --> 00:43:34,849 I really would I've been on the 846 00:43:34,849 --> 00:43:36,999 receiving end of it in testing and 847 00:43:36,999 --> 00:43:39,349 mentally translated myself to what if 848 00:43:39,349 --> 00:43:42,109 this was combat and it is a unnerving na 849 00:43:42,109 --> 00:43:45,650 a disquieting feeling to fly in the same 850 00:43:45,650 --> 00:43:47,269 airspace with more these airlines I 851 00:43:47,269 --> 00:43:49,670 would say that it's not fair to our 852 00:43:49,670 --> 00:43:51,920 enemies or even our own technology to 853 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,539 fight against the Raptor but the goal of 854 00:43:53,539 --> 00:43:55,339 war isn't fair that we don't go into 855 00:43:55,339 --> 00:43:58,039 combat because we want a fair fight 856 00:43:58,039 --> 00:44:00,380 we want to win as fast as possible with 857 00:44:00,380 --> 00:44:02,479 as little loss of life as possible and 858 00:44:02,479 --> 00:44:04,160 the Raptor allows that to do that for 859 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:05,950 generations to come 860 00:44:05,950 --> 00:44:08,920 in today's changing world there are few 861 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,760 certainties but the rule of the Raptor 862 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,920 America's air dominance fighter over the 863 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,930 skies is one of them 864 00:44:21,290 --> 00:00:00,000 you