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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