WEBVTT 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.200 this aircraft is the most advanced of 00:00:25.200 --> 00:00:27.840 its breed built around the first look 00:00:27.840 --> 00:00:31.349 first shot first kill ethos it is all 00:00:31.349 --> 00:00:33.360 set to become the air dominant stealth 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:37.500 fighter of the 21st century the Raptor 00:00:37.500 --> 00:00:39.180 is a killing machine just like the name 00:00:39.180 --> 00:00:42.269 implies as deadly as it looks it's even 00:00:42.269 --> 00:00:43.980 more deadly when a gas gets out there 00:00:43.980 --> 00:00:45.940 and does its job 00:00:45.940 --> 00:00:48.760 deadly and undetectable at long range 00:00:48.760 --> 00:00:50.920 this breathtaking fifth-generation 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.650 fighter blends unmatched dogfighting 00:00:53.650 --> 00:00:55.809 with precision strike ground attack 00:00:55.809 --> 00:01:01.629 capabilities you literally are able to 00:01:01.629 --> 00:01:03.220 swim through the sharks and the sharks 00:01:03.220 --> 00:01:05.080 never see you and never know you're 00:01:05.080 --> 00:01:07.450 there at any point in time you can reach 00:01:07.450 --> 00:01:09.869 out and touch them with deadly force 00:01:09.869 --> 00:01:12.729 capable of super crews and packing a 00:01:12.729 --> 00:01:14.830 deadly array of state-of-the-art missile 00:01:14.830 --> 00:01:17.259 systems this stealth jet of the new 00:01:17.259 --> 00:01:19.720 millennium can intercept and strike any 00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:23.680 target with near impunity they die they 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:25.060 die without knowing where the Raptors 00:01:25.060 --> 00:01:27.310 are they die without knowing that they 00:01:27.310 --> 00:01:32.979 were targeted they die often now using 00:01:32.979 --> 00:01:35.020 unique footage will take you on an 00:01:35.020 --> 00:01:37.810 all-access tour of America's newest 00:01:37.810 --> 00:01:43.380 super weapon the FA 22 rut 00:01:46.960 --> 00:01:50.630 1981 in his first press conference as 00:01:50.630 --> 00:01:52.460 chief executive of the United States 00:01:52.460 --> 00:01:55.490 Ronald Wilson Reagan offered a deal to 00:01:55.490 --> 00:01:59.900 the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev if 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:02.479 Soviet ss-20 missiles aimed at Western 00:02:02.479 --> 00:02:04.790 Europe were removed America would not 00:02:04.790 --> 00:02:07.130 deploy its Pershing to cruise missiles 00:02:07.130 --> 00:02:09.940 to counter the threat 00:02:11.349 --> 00:02:14.360 throughout the 1960s and 70s the Soviets 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:16.700 developed different missiles to attack 00:02:16.700 --> 00:02:19.159 in different altitude bands you couldn't 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:21.349 fly under the missile threat you 00:02:21.349 --> 00:02:23.690 couldn't fly over the missile threat you 00:02:23.690 --> 00:02:26.720 had to deal with the missile threat one 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:28.579 way to do that is to make suppression of 00:02:28.579 --> 00:02:31.940 enemy air defense that is destroying the 00:02:31.940 --> 00:02:34.519 missile sites in the radars the most 00:02:34.519 --> 00:02:40.040 important mission for the Air Force by 00:02:40.040 --> 00:02:44.390 the 1970s air superiority had reimagine 00:02:44.390 --> 00:02:47.060 and the US Air Force committed to 00:02:47.060 --> 00:02:48.829 building its first pure air superiority 00:02:48.829 --> 00:02:51.170 fighter an aircraft that would 00:02:51.170 --> 00:02:55.510 eventually become the f-15 Eagle 00:02:58.209 --> 00:03:01.519 but just as f-15s became operational in 00:03:01.519 --> 00:03:04.640 1978 alarming new evidence suggested 00:03:04.640 --> 00:03:06.470 that the new fighter superiority might 00:03:06.470 --> 00:03:09.519 only be temperament 00:03:10.890 --> 00:03:13.540 u.s. reconnaissance satellites passing 00:03:13.540 --> 00:03:15.700 over a Soviet flight test center north 00:03:15.700 --> 00:03:18.520 of Moscow discover new Soviet fighters 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.250 being tested one was the agile fighter 00:03:21.250 --> 00:03:25.300 the Mikoyan mig-29 but the other came as 00:03:25.300 --> 00:03:30.100 a huge shock to Western analysts it was 00:03:30.100 --> 00:03:32.770 bigger than the f-15 and far bigger than 00:03:32.770 --> 00:03:35.590 any previous Soviet built fighter the 00:03:35.590 --> 00:03:39.880 Sukhoi t10 prototype at that time the 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:42.070 Soviet Union initiated some very 00:03:42.070 --> 00:03:43.960 aggressive programs to come up with 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:47.170 counters in both the mckeon and Sukhoi 00:03:47.170 --> 00:03:50.170 both those design bureaus initiated new 00:03:50.170 --> 00:03:52.780 aircraft development efforts and it 00:03:52.780 --> 00:03:54.670 appeared that they run a track they 00:03:54.670 --> 00:03:57.490 would field some very advanced fighters 00:03:57.490 --> 00:04:01.360 if the mig-29 had concerned the American 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:03.520 military establishment the existence of 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:08.220 the Sukhoi t10 set alarm bells ringing 00:04:08.220 --> 00:04:11.010 these are very good aircraft their 00:04:11.010 --> 00:04:14.070 aircraft that play in the same league as 00:04:14.070 --> 00:04:16.790 some of the top NATO aircraft like 00:04:16.790 --> 00:04:21.279 phantom and ultimately like f-15 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:27.010 the goal is world peace just weeks into 00:04:27.010 --> 00:04:29.860 his first term America's 40th president 00:04:29.860 --> 00:04:32.260 increased US defense spending by thirty 00:04:32.260 --> 00:04:35.260 two point five billion dollars and began 00:04:35.260 --> 00:04:37.240 the rearmament of the United States on a 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:40.020 colossal scale 00:04:40.629 --> 00:04:44.469 in 1981 the Cold War was getting very 00:04:44.469 --> 00:04:46.740 warm 00:04:47.500 --> 00:04:50.980 as Reagan and Brezhnev squared up the US 00:04:50.980 --> 00:04:52.810 Air Force concluded that it urgently 00:04:52.810 --> 00:04:55.360 needed a replacement for its f15 an 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:59.020 Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF that 00:04:59.020 --> 00:05:03.850 would have no equal as American planners 00:05:03.850 --> 00:05:06.190 start to develop the concept of air land 00:05:06.190 --> 00:05:09.430 battle to fight World War three the u.s. 00:05:09.430 --> 00:05:12.160 air force starts to think about the kind 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:14.530 of equipment it wants to have when it 00:05:14.530 --> 00:05:18.100 comes time to fight the war at that time 00:05:18.100 --> 00:05:20.620 in the secretive black world of advanced 00:05:20.620 --> 00:05:23.290 aviation development one technology had 00:05:23.290 --> 00:05:25.419 emerged at the forefront of all military 00:05:25.419 --> 00:05:28.900 aircraft development stealth during that 00:05:28.900 --> 00:05:31.360 period the late 1970s of course in what 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:33.669 we call the black world in the in the 00:05:33.669 --> 00:05:35.770 world of secret programs there was a 00:05:35.770 --> 00:05:37.990 great effort going on to come up with 00:05:37.990 --> 00:05:41.200 counters to these new Soviet weapon 00:05:41.200 --> 00:05:43.900 systems that could enable us to knock 00:05:43.900 --> 00:05:46.060 out their Sam system and that of course 00:05:46.060 --> 00:05:50.010 led to the development of the f-117 00:05:50.010 --> 00:05:52.410 analysis of air-to-air combat in Vietnam 00:05:52.410 --> 00:05:53.590 called 00:05:53.590 --> 00:05:56.020 the Red Baron study and kick-started the 00:05:56.020 --> 00:05:59.110 race for stealth an operational analysis 00:05:59.110 --> 00:06:01.780 study showed in Vietnam that most 00:06:01.780 --> 00:06:04.630 aircraft were killed by other aircraft 00:06:04.630 --> 00:06:07.060 that they hadn't seen so from this you 00:06:07.060 --> 00:06:10.090 get the idea that if the aircraft isn't 00:06:10.090 --> 00:06:12.710 seen it has a tremendous advantage 00:06:12.710 --> 00:06:15.470 air combat data from world war ii and 00:06:15.470 --> 00:06:17.900 korea had reinforced this need for 00:06:17.900 --> 00:06:19.509 invisibility 00:06:19.509 --> 00:06:24.800 so from this in a process of operational 00:06:24.800 --> 00:06:29.000 analysis the US Air Force learns that 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.680 what you really need to do is be 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.949 invisible to the enemy and that means 00:06:33.949 --> 00:06:36.800 that an aircraft is designed to be as 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:39.800 near as possible invisible to an enemy 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.009 fighter aircraft it's geometry is 00:06:43.009 --> 00:06:46.520 designed to give it a very low profile 00:06:46.520 --> 00:06:49.780 that is to make it very invisible to an 00:06:49.780 --> 00:06:52.729 oncoming fighter aircraft using 00:06:52.729 --> 00:06:54.820 high-frequency fighter aircraft radar 00:06:54.820 --> 00:06:57.889 the principle of stealth technology is 00:06:57.889 --> 00:07:00.050 to literally make an aeroplane invisible 00:07:00.050 --> 00:07:04.580 to the enemy an aircraft's shape must 00:07:04.580 --> 00:07:07.009 reflect incoming radio waves away from 00:07:07.009 --> 00:07:10.150 the enemy radar rather than towards it 00:07:10.150 --> 00:07:12.919 to further increase low observable 00:07:12.919 --> 00:07:14.990 characteristics an aeroplane is then 00:07:14.990 --> 00:07:17.150 covered in materials that absorb radar 00:07:17.150 --> 00:07:19.789 signals further reducing its visibility 00:07:19.789 --> 00:07:22.780 on a radar screen 00:07:23.870 --> 00:07:26.190 stealth doesn't mean invisible 00:07:26.190 --> 00:07:30.360 it just means less visible operational 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:33.330 analysis shows that if you apply certain 00:07:33.330 --> 00:07:37.290 computer models to air-to-air combat the 00:07:37.290 --> 00:07:39.480 more stealthy aircraft the one that's 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:44.120 harder to see is likely or to win 00:07:47.830 --> 00:07:50.060 leading the way in stealth technology 00:07:50.060 --> 00:07:52.390 was Lockheed skunkworks 00:07:52.390 --> 00:07:55.580 in the late 1970s tell wasn't widely 00:07:55.580 --> 00:07:58.130 known outside of a few companies the 00:07:58.130 --> 00:08:00.850 ability to integrate stealth technology 00:08:00.850 --> 00:08:03.490 shaping for stealth and the materials 00:08:03.490 --> 00:08:06.440 was really only well known in two 00:08:06.440 --> 00:08:08.980 companies it was Lockheed and Northrop 00:08:08.980 --> 00:08:13.840 in 1977 amid unprecedented security 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:16.220 Lockheed had flown a prototype of the 00:08:16.220 --> 00:08:18.980 world's first stealth fighter and by the 00:08:18.980 --> 00:08:22.570 1980s during Operation Just Cause its 00:08:22.570 --> 00:08:25.250 f-117 had helped to destroy general 00:08:25.250 --> 00:08:33.500 Noriega --zz regime in Panama now the US 00:08:33.500 --> 00:08:35.479 Air Force decided that any new fighter 00:08:35.479 --> 00:08:37.849 must incorporate stealth technology and 00:08:37.849 --> 00:08:40.340 identified two other areas in which a 00:08:40.340 --> 00:08:42.470 future air superiority fighter should 00:08:42.470 --> 00:08:44.919 excel 00:08:49.070 --> 00:08:52.380 well at that stage of the game was clear 00:08:52.380 --> 00:08:54.590 that the Air Force wanted a stealthy 00:08:54.590 --> 00:08:58.560 fighter it was also clear that they 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:00.870 wanted an airplane that would 00:09:00.870 --> 00:09:02.990 supercruise in other words run 00:09:02.990 --> 00:09:05.970 supersonically without lighting off to 00:09:05.970 --> 00:09:09.480 afterburners and they didn't want to 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.470 sacrifice any of the classic fighter 00:09:12.470 --> 00:09:14.280 maneuverability so they wanted a fighter 00:09:14.280 --> 00:09:17.100 that besides all the new technology 00:09:17.100 --> 00:09:20.160 would maneuver as well or better than 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:25.650 the f-15 in October 1982 representatives 00:09:25.650 --> 00:09:27.600 from fighter manufacturers met with the 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:30.000 US Air Force and began to identify the 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:33.560 specific must-haves for the new fighter 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:36.720 at the time there were eight contractors 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:38.460 of built combat aircraft in the States 00:09:38.460 --> 00:09:40.950 seven of those responded to a request 00:09:40.950 --> 00:09:44.160 for proposals from that period of 1983 00:09:44.160 --> 00:09:47.940 to 85 or 86 was a process of refinement 00:09:47.940 --> 00:09:50.850 you know narrowing down the specific 00:09:50.850 --> 00:09:54.030 parameters it must be a supersonic 00:09:54.030 --> 00:09:56.460 cruise aircraft with a combat radius of 00:09:56.460 --> 00:09:58.830 seven to nine hundred miles with reduced 00:09:58.830 --> 00:10:01.530 observables if possible the aircraft 00:10:01.530 --> 00:10:02.970 would have to be able to operate on a 00:10:02.970 --> 00:10:05.790 2,000 foot runway and must be easier to 00:10:05.790 --> 00:10:08.770 maintain than an f-15 00:10:08.770 --> 00:10:11.740 the challenge had been issued now it was 00:10:11.740 --> 00:10:13.720 up to the finest aviation manufacturers 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:17.890 in the world to respond I'm a village 00:10:17.890 --> 00:10:21.010 optimist and I have to say that the 00:10:21.010 --> 00:10:23.980 requirements were very demanding but I 00:10:23.980 --> 00:10:27.910 didn't have any I didn't have any strong 00:10:27.910 --> 00:10:31.450 feeling that we couldn't do this the 00:10:31.450 --> 00:10:33.610 Advanced Tactical Fighter program was 00:10:33.610 --> 00:10:36.910 about to begin and the Raptor America's 00:10:36.910 --> 00:10:39.760 fifth-generation fighter was about to be 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:52.990 hatched by 1983 us-soviet relations had 00:10:52.990 --> 00:10:55.230 reached a new low 00:10:55.230 --> 00:10:58.029 following Leonid Brezhnev's death the 00:10:58.029 --> 00:11:01.149 Politburo now controlled by ex-kgb boss 00:11:01.149 --> 00:11:03.520 yuri and drop off had been labeled by 00:11:03.520 --> 00:11:06.250 reagan as the focus of evil in the 00:11:06.250 --> 00:11:08.500 modern world 00:11:08.500 --> 00:11:10.700 continuing his policy of rearmament 00:11:10.700 --> 00:11:13.220 Reagan announced plans for the Strategic 00:11:13.220 --> 00:11:16.340 Defense Initiative better known as Star 00:11:16.340 --> 00:11:21.160 Wars and Moscow reacted furiously 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.110 publishing polar prodigy in a Russian 00:11:26.110 --> 00:11:29.090 capoeira a marathon see a Kaboodle's 00:11:29.090 --> 00:11:33.560 Nina gusta get their image legally not 00:11:33.560 --> 00:11:35.750 August when Korean Airlines flight 00:11:35.750 --> 00:11:37.970 double-oh-seven on its way to Seoul from 00:11:37.970 --> 00:11:40.070 New York strayed several hundred miles 00:11:40.070 --> 00:11:42.950 off course into Soviet airspace Russia 00:11:42.950 --> 00:11:47.540 acted a fighter was sent up and the 00:11:47.540 --> 00:11:50.450 civilian airliner with 269 people on 00:11:50.450 --> 00:11:54.040 board was shot down 00:11:56.830 --> 00:12:01.000 a shooting down of kaal double-oh-seven 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:02.920 sent shockwaves around the world 00:12:02.920 --> 00:12:05.230 straining international relations almost 00:12:05.230 --> 00:12:10.510 a breaking point but can we think of a 00:12:10.510 --> 00:12:13.090 regime that so broadly trumpets its 00:12:13.090 --> 00:12:15.310 vision of peace and global disarmament 00:12:15.310 --> 00:12:18.730 and yet so callously and quickly commits 00:12:18.730 --> 00:12:20.500 a terrorist act to sacrifice the lives 00:12:20.500 --> 00:12:24.000 of innocent human beings 00:12:26.970 --> 00:12:29.170 Regan's reaction to the crisis 00:12:29.170 --> 00:12:31.030 strengthened u.s. conviction that 00:12:31.030 --> 00:12:32.680 stealth would now be the prime 00:12:32.680 --> 00:12:35.730 requirement for America's new feisty 00:12:35.730 --> 00:12:38.320 some senior people the Pentagon looked 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:40.480 at the stealth requirements and decided 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:42.190 they were inadequate and they radically 00:12:42.190 --> 00:12:45.010 changed him so the stealth became a 00:12:45.010 --> 00:12:48.010 really major dominant requirement in the 00:12:48.010 --> 00:12:52.120 program in this politically charged 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:54.550 climate the US Air Force created its 00:12:54.550 --> 00:12:57.850 Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF system 00:12:57.850 --> 00:13:00.370 program office based at wright-patterson 00:13:00.370 --> 00:13:03.790 Air Force Base in Ohio Colonel Albert CP 00:13:03.790 --> 00:13:05.680 Carrillo is placed in charge of the 00:13:05.680 --> 00:13:08.020 division one of the things we really 00:13:08.020 --> 00:13:10.360 wanted was the ability to leverage 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.060 stealth in a high-performance fighter 00:13:13.060 --> 00:13:15.430 and we also wanted this high-performance 00:13:15.430 --> 00:13:17.800 fighter to still be capable of good 00:13:17.800 --> 00:13:19.450 clothes in within visual range 00:13:19.450 --> 00:13:23.110 maneuvering capability in fact we wanted 00:13:23.110 --> 00:13:24.970 more than just existing capability in 00:13:24.970 --> 00:13:28.930 something the manufacturers are invited 00:13:28.930 --> 00:13:31.060 to submit concepts for an aircraft with 00:13:31.060 --> 00:13:33.280 an operational radius of 800 miles 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:35.680 enough to allow it to operate over the 00:13:35.680 --> 00:13:37.810 entire central region of Europe from 00:13:37.810 --> 00:13:40.540 bases in central England it should have 00:13:40.540 --> 00:13:43.090 low observable characteristics and be 00:13:43.090 --> 00:13:45.760 able to cruise at Mach 1 point 5 for an 00:13:45.760 --> 00:13:49.380 astonishing 600 miles 00:13:49.880 --> 00:13:52.220 we weren't building an airplane for the 00:13:52.220 --> 00:13:53.990 1990s although that was what we were 00:13:53.990 --> 00:13:55.850 trying to do we were really building a 00:13:55.850 --> 00:13:57.560 fighter for the 21st century that could 00:13:57.560 --> 00:14:00.500 take on all of the advanced threats that 00:14:00.500 --> 00:14:02.630 the Soviet Union was likely to throw in 00:14:02.630 --> 00:14:05.600 itself all of the teams would have their 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:06.770 work cut out for them 00:14:06.770 --> 00:14:09.260 but importantly the military added 00:14:09.260 --> 00:14:14.360 another complicating factor at the end 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:16.370 of the concept demonstration phase the 00:14:16.370 --> 00:14:18.550 decision was made by the Air Force to 00:14:18.550 --> 00:14:21.830 launch a demonstration validation phase 00:14:21.830 --> 00:14:23.540 of the program that would involve 00:14:23.540 --> 00:14:27.470 building to flight demonstrators YF type 00:14:27.470 --> 00:14:30.640 airplanes that would then be evaluated 00:14:30.640 --> 00:14:33.110 they didn't after that full armament 00:14:33.110 --> 00:14:34.610 they didn't have to have avionics they 00:14:34.610 --> 00:14:36.950 didn't have to have stealth coatings but 00:14:36.950 --> 00:14:38.810 essentially they were going to go out 00:14:38.810 --> 00:14:42.770 show us what you can do but building 00:14:42.770 --> 00:14:45.710 prototype aircraft is expensive and no 00:14:45.710 --> 00:14:47.540 one manufacturer could afford it on 00:14:47.540 --> 00:14:49.720 their own 00:14:50.140 --> 00:14:53.200 they all know that they must invest so 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:57.130 much money and developing that if they 00:14:57.130 --> 00:15:01.210 don't get the contract they're going to 00:15:01.210 --> 00:15:04.120 be so out of pocket it's gonna hurt the 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:06.990 company badly 00:15:07.060 --> 00:15:10.450 we Lockheed made a policy decision at 00:15:10.450 --> 00:15:12.790 the CEO level that we would seek teaming 00:15:12.790 --> 00:15:15.670 so the bottom line is we ended up 00:15:15.670 --> 00:15:18.910 deciding that we would team with Boeing 00:15:18.910 --> 00:15:22.390 and General Dynamics Fort Worth each 00:15:22.390 --> 00:15:24.670 manufacturer would submit a design for 00:15:24.670 --> 00:15:27.580 the demonstration valuation or Denville 00:15:27.580 --> 00:15:29.860 competition but had agreed that the 00:15:29.860 --> 00:15:31.390 winning company would be the prime 00:15:31.390 --> 00:15:33.390 contractor and its partners 00:15:33.390 --> 00:15:35.140 subcontracted to produce major 00:15:35.140 --> 00:15:37.320 components 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:39.670 everybody's investment will be at least 00:15:39.670 --> 00:15:42.550 partly repaid because everybody gets 00:15:42.550 --> 00:15:46.810 piece of the action seven designs for 00:15:46.810 --> 00:15:48.730 the Air Force competition was submitted 00:15:48.730 --> 00:15:53.800 for final evaluation all of the seven 00:15:53.800 --> 00:15:55.420 contractors came in with designs that 00:15:55.420 --> 00:15:56.980 were very feasible and it could that 00:15:56.980 --> 00:15:58.870 could have been built the question was 00:15:58.870 --> 00:16:01.660 which were the best and then how did we 00:16:01.660 --> 00:16:03.280 determined that they really were good 00:16:03.280 --> 00:16:07.960 enough to manufacturers with strong 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:09.720 experience in stealth technology 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:13.480 Northrop with its b2 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:19.769 and Lockheed with its f-117 lead the way 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.959 northrop's Advanced Tactical Fighter or 00:16:22.959 --> 00:16:25.689 ATF design was for an alien looking 00:16:25.689 --> 00:16:28.540 aircraft with diamond planform wings and 00:16:28.540 --> 00:16:31.869 huge V tails it was a design that 00:16:31.869 --> 00:16:35.920 stressed speed and stealth Northrop came 00:16:35.920 --> 00:16:38.709 in with a an airplane that really from 00:16:38.709 --> 00:16:40.809 the very beginning look just like the Y 00:16:40.809 --> 00:16:43.860 of 23 that eventually was built as well 00:16:43.860 --> 00:16:46.239 Lockheed's entry echoed that of the 00:16:46.239 --> 00:16:50.019 f-117 it's vectored thrust Arrowhead 00:16:50.019 --> 00:16:53.230 shape trapezoidal wings and four tails 00:16:53.230 --> 00:16:55.089 ensure that the aircraft would be 00:16:55.089 --> 00:16:59.949 maneuverable the fact was that Lockheed 00:16:59.949 --> 00:17:02.049 and Northrop had significant advantages 00:17:02.049 --> 00:17:05.500 in the fact that they had built stealth 00:17:05.500 --> 00:17:07.750 aircraft and flown them it's big 00:17:07.750 --> 00:17:10.270 credibility factor there 00:17:10.270 --> 00:17:14.650 on October 31st 1986 both Lockheed and 00:17:14.650 --> 00:17:17.230 Northrop ATF designs were declared the 00:17:17.230 --> 00:17:19.480 winners of the competition under the 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:21.880 terms of the dem val competition each 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:25.920 team would build two aircraft 00:17:26.510 --> 00:17:29.299 at the end of the process one of two 00:17:29.299 --> 00:17:31.280 designs would become America's new 00:17:31.280 --> 00:17:34.640 Advanced Tactical Fighter costing 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:36.860 billions of dollars the new fighter 00:17:36.860 --> 00:17:39.350 would make a technological leap into the 00:17:39.350 --> 00:17:46.160 21st century just nine months after 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.559 being selected to build to demonstration 00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:50.770 valuation fighters for the US Air Force 00:17:50.770 --> 00:17:53.480 Lockheed shocked everyone and scrapped 00:17:53.480 --> 00:18:01.280 its original design in July of 87 we 00:18:01.280 --> 00:18:03.710 looked at our design at that time and we 00:18:03.710 --> 00:18:05.030 looked at what we thought it would weigh 00:18:05.030 --> 00:18:08.510 and how it would perform and with no 00:18:08.510 --> 00:18:11.799 input from the Air Force we decided to 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:16.309 start over so between July 13th of 87 00:18:16.309 --> 00:18:20.690 and mid-october that year basically 00:18:20.690 --> 00:18:24.110 that's where the f-22 came into the 00:18:24.110 --> 00:18:27.080 world in a hectic three-month process 00:18:27.080 --> 00:18:29.360 with help from its partners lockheed 00:18:29.360 --> 00:18:30.760 produced a completely different 00:18:30.760 --> 00:18:33.940 configuration with a clipped delta wing 00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:37.179 we changed to clip diamond wings which 00:18:37.179 --> 00:18:41.090 gave us almost the same aerodynamic 00:18:41.090 --> 00:18:42.860 performance but a lot lower structural 00:18:42.860 --> 00:18:45.169 weight we did the same thing with the 00:18:45.169 --> 00:18:47.960 trapezoidal horizontal tails and the 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:50.720 same thing with the verticals 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:53.510 over the next four years at a cost of 00:18:53.510 --> 00:18:56.210 just over two billion dollars America's 00:18:56.210 --> 00:18:58.190 tactical fighter competition became the 00:18:58.190 --> 00:19:01.290 largest program of its kind 00:19:01.290 --> 00:19:04.710 and in 1990 just months after the 00:19:04.710 --> 00:19:07.110 disintegration of the Soviet Union the 00:19:07.110 --> 00:19:09.540 shapes of the two rival designs were 00:19:09.540 --> 00:19:13.110 finally unveiled and now ladies and 00:19:13.110 --> 00:19:15.870 gentlemen I proudly present to you the 00:19:15.870 --> 00:19:19.110 yf-22 a prototype for US air superiority 00:19:19.110 --> 00:19:22.820 in the 21st century 00:19:30.230 --> 00:19:33.260 on behalf of the entire team I am 00:19:33.260 --> 00:19:37.210 honored to present the yf-23 00:19:44.350 --> 00:19:47.560 Northrop's version called the yf-23 00:19:47.560 --> 00:19:51.100 closely resembled its original design 00:19:51.100 --> 00:19:53.450 well it was the most unusual looking at 00:19:53.450 --> 00:19:57.380 very futuristic it had twin details as 00:19:57.380 --> 00:19:58.970 opposed to what's called a cruciform 00:19:58.970 --> 00:20:00.980 twin verticals and twin horizontals I 00:20:00.980 --> 00:20:04.790 had a large trapezoidal wing and it had 00:20:04.790 --> 00:20:07.010 a very slender shape and looked at for 00:20:07.010 --> 00:20:10.910 me a John view in contrast Lockheed's 00:20:10.910 --> 00:20:13.850 design called the yf-22 seemed 00:20:13.850 --> 00:20:16.340 surprisingly conventional with four tail 00:20:16.340 --> 00:20:19.610 surfaces vectored thrust a broad solid 00:20:19.610 --> 00:20:23.210 body and a conventional wing but unlike 00:20:23.210 --> 00:20:25.340 Lockheed's other stealth aircraft the 00:20:25.340 --> 00:20:28.880 f-117 radar absorbent materials were not 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:31.550 applied over the whole of the FA 22 but 00:20:31.550 --> 00:20:34.520 used selectively on its edges cavities 00:20:34.520 --> 00:20:38.650 and crucial surface areas 00:20:40.730 --> 00:20:42.740 you walk around the airplane everywhere 00:20:42.740 --> 00:20:45.440 you look about what you see is something 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.110 that's designed to do the job in the 00:20:48.110 --> 00:20:50.410 most efficient and effective way and no 00:20:50.410 --> 00:20:55.820 wasted space no wasted capability it's 00:20:55.820 --> 00:20:58.490 truly an airplane it's intended and has 00:20:58.490 --> 00:21:02.590 been optimized for its job 00:21:03.790 --> 00:21:07.570 the f-22 carries its weapons internally 00:21:07.570 --> 00:21:10.010 for weapons bays are hidden in the 00:21:10.010 --> 00:21:13.160 central mid-body section six missiles 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:14.840 can be carried in the ventral Bay's 00:21:14.840 --> 00:21:18.169 which are covered with bi-fold doors the 00:21:18.169 --> 00:21:20.780 side bays will each hold one Sidewinder 00:21:20.780 --> 00:21:23.590 missile carried on a trapeze launcher 00:21:23.590 --> 00:21:26.750 the mid-body section also houses the 00:21:26.750 --> 00:21:29.240 fighters landing gear and complex in met 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:34.070 ducts right from day one on the f-22 we 00:21:34.070 --> 00:21:36.880 decided to put s-shaped 00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:39.590 Inlet ducts on it so the airplane is 00:21:39.590 --> 00:21:41.780 built with s-shape Inlet ducts so that 00:21:41.780 --> 00:21:45.980 there's no way a radar is ever seeing 00:21:45.980 --> 00:21:49.200 the forward face of the jet engine 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:51.720 attached to the mid-body is the four 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:53.789 body which accommodates the cockpit and 00:21:53.789 --> 00:21:58.889 advanced avionics both the yf-23 and the 00:21:58.889 --> 00:22:01.740 yf-22 are impressive-looking machines 00:22:01.740 --> 00:22:04.679 but their performance still needs to be 00:22:04.679 --> 00:22:07.620 tested the most crucial stage of the 00:22:07.620 --> 00:22:10.679 competition is still to come the flight 00:22:10.679 --> 00:22:13.190 testing 00:22:19.620 --> 00:22:22.750 Northrop was first in the air in August 00:22:22.750 --> 00:22:26.590 1990 flown by Paul Metz the yf-23 got 00:22:26.590 --> 00:22:28.980 airborne 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:56.359 the test was a huge success but Lockheed 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:58.730 was quick to respond and on September 00:22:58.730 --> 00:23:00.889 the 29th at Edwards Air Force Base in 00:23:00.889 --> 00:23:01.909 California 00:23:01.909 --> 00:23:04.340 Lockheed chief test pilot Dave Ferguson 00:23:04.340 --> 00:23:06.649 prepared the raptor for its maiden 00:23:06.649 --> 00:23:13.970 flight I pulled on her runway and looked 00:23:13.970 --> 00:23:16.039 down the runway it was just a feeling of 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:17.779 really relief and that we're going to do 00:23:17.779 --> 00:23:22.879 it and I ran the airplane up to 80% 00:23:22.879 --> 00:23:26.049 military power 00:23:26.830 --> 00:23:30.340 and acceleration was just amazing I mean 00:23:30.340 --> 00:23:34.230 it was like an f15 in full afterburner 00:23:39.160 --> 00:23:41.050 and I thought the only thing in this 00:23:41.050 --> 00:23:42.730 airplane that's ever flown before it was 00:23:42.730 --> 00:23:44.920 me and I think in the back of my mind I 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:46.990 was saying please fly please fly when I 00:23:46.990 --> 00:23:48.790 pulled your nose up and it just lifted 00:23:48.790 --> 00:23:50.910 off 00:24:09.830 --> 00:24:13.519 I was fully aware we had a wonderful 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:16.490 flying airplane and the handling 00:24:16.490 --> 00:24:18.500 qualities in the takeoff and landing 00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:20.299 their power approach as we call it were 00:24:20.299 --> 00:24:27.080 just absolutely superb when I landed in 00:24:27.080 --> 00:24:29.419 Sherman at the airplane I said hey boss 00:24:29.419 --> 00:24:33.230 we really have a winner here the way the 00:24:33.230 --> 00:24:35.480 f-22 performed was no surprise to 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:37.730 anybody who was involved in the program 00:24:37.730 --> 00:24:41.299 not at all I mean my money has been on 00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:46.279 the f-22 from early 1985 it'll be there 00:24:46.279 --> 00:24:50.630 till I'm gone over the next three months 00:24:50.630 --> 00:24:53.120 the Raptor underwent a whole series of 00:24:53.120 --> 00:24:56.360 tests the Air Force required both teams 00:24:56.360 --> 00:24:59.200 to give them performance projections and 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:01.519 then they were going to actually compare 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:02.720 that with what the airplanes actually 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:05.059 did in flight subsonic supersonic at 00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:07.470 different altitudes and so forth 00:25:07.470 --> 00:25:09.600 the winner of this stage would earn a 00:25:09.600 --> 00:25:14.039 contract for 650 aircraft the decision 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:15.690 would hinge not just on what the 00:25:15.690 --> 00:25:17.820 contractors promised but on the Air 00:25:17.820 --> 00:25:19.769 Force's confidence in their ability to 00:25:19.769 --> 00:25:21.710 deliver 00:25:21.710 --> 00:25:25.280 we expected to get a lot of flying done 00:25:25.280 --> 00:25:28.220 in the 90 days we actually got 72 00:25:28.220 --> 00:25:30.350 flights out of two airplanes in 90 days 00:25:30.350 --> 00:25:37.030 and that is about as good as you can do 00:25:37.030 --> 00:25:39.950 during flight testing the Raptor had 00:25:39.950 --> 00:25:43.190 beaten northrop yf-23 in a number of 00:25:43.190 --> 00:25:46.690 crucial performance areas 00:25:48.180 --> 00:25:50.880 we'd focused on the supersonic testing 00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:54.120 including super cruising and we did 00:25:54.120 --> 00:25:55.740 something that Northrop didn't do and 00:25:55.740 --> 00:25:57.120 that is we did launch a couple of 00:25:57.120 --> 00:26:00.450 missiles we launched a Sidewinder out of 00:26:00.450 --> 00:26:02.880 the internal side bay on our prototype 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:05.000 airplanes and we launched an AM Ram 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:07.680 long-range air-to-air missile out of the 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:12.900 internal web space the yf-22 had clearly 00:26:12.900 --> 00:26:14.760 shown that in every category 00:26:14.760 --> 00:26:17.010 it was far superior to any existing 00:26:17.010 --> 00:26:22.020 fighter the Air Force was was very 00:26:22.020 --> 00:26:23.910 impressed by what Lockheed had done 00:26:23.910 --> 00:26:25.290 their flight test program was very 00:26:25.290 --> 00:26:29.700 aggressive they flew hard and fast they 00:26:29.700 --> 00:26:32.040 flew many more hours and sorties than 00:26:32.040 --> 00:26:34.170 Northrop did and all of that gave the 00:26:34.170 --> 00:26:35.850 Air Force confidence that they knew what 00:26:35.850 --> 00:26:37.830 they were doing high confidence and they 00:26:37.830 --> 00:26:41.390 could build a superior airplane 00:26:43.770 --> 00:26:47.440 but it would be events in 1991 that 00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:51.300 would carve out the Raptors future 00:26:53.970 --> 00:26:56.830 22 minutes after midnight on January the 00:26:56.830 --> 00:26:58.740 17th 1991 00:26:58.740 --> 00:27:02.740 Lockheed's stealth f-117 spearheaded 00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:04.660 u.s. stripes against Saddam Hussein's 00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:09.010 regime the performance of Lockheed 00:27:09.010 --> 00:27:11.110 stealth bombers during Operation Desert 00:27:11.110 --> 00:27:13.600 Storm would give the company and its 00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:16.090 aircraft some priceless publicity 00:27:16.090 --> 00:27:21.850 I think clearly Lockheed was benefited 00:27:21.850 --> 00:27:25.570 in 1991 by the Gulf War where the f-117 00:27:25.570 --> 00:27:28.210 was it was a star performer and there 00:27:28.210 --> 00:27:31.720 were skeptics of stealth even as late as 00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:35.920 that that had to be beneficial to the 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:39.970 program but another aircraft also 00:27:39.970 --> 00:27:42.190 emerged from the Gulf War with a glowing 00:27:42.190 --> 00:27:44.670 reputation 00:27:44.700 --> 00:27:46.760 you 00:27:49.350 --> 00:27:52.870 the f-15 the aircraft destined to be 00:27:52.870 --> 00:27:55.390 replaced by the ATF had emphatically 00:27:55.390 --> 00:27:57.730 confirmed its status as the foremost air 00:27:57.730 --> 00:28:02.710 superiority fighter in the world now it 00:28:02.710 --> 00:28:04.180 appeared that the need for an advanced 00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:06.940 stealthy fighter the f-22 might be 00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:10.540 totally unfounded it's all like the f-15 00:28:10.540 --> 00:28:13.510 wasn't any good it's good aircraft it's 00:28:13.510 --> 00:28:16.030 still a good aircraft it will be a good 00:28:16.030 --> 00:28:18.340 aircraft for years to come you could 00:28:18.340 --> 00:28:20.260 even just chew up the factory and keep 00:28:20.260 --> 00:28:22.240 building new f50 - why not 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.690 yeah but not everyone agrees the big 00:28:25.690 --> 00:28:28.600 weakness in their argument is they are 00:28:28.600 --> 00:28:30.100 making a statement about world 00:28:30.100 --> 00:28:32.320 conditions today and what the threats 00:28:32.320 --> 00:28:34.870 are today the real issue is what 00:28:34.870 --> 00:28:39.010 capability you want for 2025 or 2030 the 00:28:39.010 --> 00:28:41.350 people who say you don't need this they 00:28:41.350 --> 00:28:42.880 think the world is not going to change 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:45.880 in the next 20 years and that is a hell 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:51.010 of an assertion by April 1991 bogged 00:28:51.010 --> 00:28:54.100 down by the f-15 debate the US Air Force 00:28:54.100 --> 00:28:56.200 prepares to announce the winner of the 00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:59.020 Advanced Tactical Fighter contract but 00:28:59.020 --> 00:29:01.060 would the Raptor emerge from the 00:29:01.060 --> 00:29:04.770 controversy unscathed 00:29:10.760 --> 00:29:15.240 on April the 1st 1991 the US Air Force 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:17.580 awarded a nine and a half billion dollar 00:29:17.580 --> 00:29:20.040 contract to the Lockheed Boeing General 00:29:20.040 --> 00:29:22.380 Dynamics team responsible for the 00:29:22.380 --> 00:29:27.570 winning f-22 Raptor design having won 00:29:27.570 --> 00:29:29.610 the contract Lockheed announced that it 00:29:29.610 --> 00:29:31.650 intended to locate the f-22 s 00:29:31.650 --> 00:29:33.690 headquarters in Georgia where the 00:29:33.690 --> 00:29:36.559 Raptors forward fuselage would be built 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.510 General Dynamics were build the f-22s 00:29:39.510 --> 00:29:42.200 mid-body section in Fort Worth Texas and 00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:44.669 Boeing would manufacture the wings and 00:29:44.669 --> 00:29:48.679 tail in Seattle Washington 00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:53.640 but just eight months after the contract 00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:55.830 was awarded the program hit its first 00:29:55.830 --> 00:29:59.930 major snag we lost one of the yf-22 00:29:59.930 --> 00:30:02.100 fortunately the test pilot who was a 00:30:02.100 --> 00:30:03.750 good friend of mine then and now walked 00:30:03.750 --> 00:30:09.150 away unharmed during preliminary testing 00:30:09.150 --> 00:30:10.650 the unthinkable happened 00:30:10.650 --> 00:30:14.730 a yf-22 flown by Tom Morgan fell crashed 00:30:14.730 --> 00:30:18.050 just after takeoff 00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:22.809 as this unique footage shows the 00:30:22.809 --> 00:30:24.460 aircraft's thrust vectoring system 00:30:24.460 --> 00:30:29.220 forces it to belly land on the runway a 00:30:29.280 --> 00:30:32.530 key element of the Raptors design thrust 00:30:32.530 --> 00:30:34.960 vectoring uses movable exhaust nozzles 00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:37.179 to alter the angle of thrust from the 00:30:37.179 --> 00:30:39.860 two Pratt & Whitney engines 00:30:39.860 --> 00:30:43.400 as the Raptor makes its low-level flyby 00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:46.040 Tom Morgan felt keeps the stick forward 00:30:46.040 --> 00:30:49.130 to keep the nose down but as the landing 00:30:49.130 --> 00:30:51.440 gear is retracted the thrust vectoring 00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:54.110 engages and pushes the aircraft towards 00:30:54.110 --> 00:30:56.450 the tarmac as the pilot struggles to 00:30:56.450 --> 00:30:58.370 correct this change in direction the 00:30:58.370 --> 00:31:05.600 Raptor C soars the fundamental error 00:31:05.600 --> 00:31:07.309 there had nothing to do with the 00:31:07.309 --> 00:31:09.650 airplane it had to do with the fact that 00:31:09.650 --> 00:31:13.070 you don't fly a green airplane and fly 00:31:13.070 --> 00:31:15.740 it at low speeds at low altitudes the 00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:17.990 cause of that accident was stupidity on 00:31:17.990 --> 00:31:19.370 the part of the management it had 00:31:19.370 --> 00:31:21.880 nothing to do with technology 00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:24.080 despite the loss of the stealth aircraft 00:31:24.080 --> 00:31:28.929 the program had achieved its major goals 00:31:29.210 --> 00:31:32.690 ten million man-hours of analysis four 00:31:32.690 --> 00:31:34.760 thousand hours of radar testing and 00:31:34.760 --> 00:31:37.340 hundreds of hours of flight testing had 00:31:37.340 --> 00:31:38.660 gone into the development of the 00:31:38.660 --> 00:31:41.240 aircraft even before construction was 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:43.990 given the going 00:31:44.230 --> 00:31:48.020 in fact the f-22 has accomplished more 00:31:48.020 --> 00:31:50.330 flight testing than any other fighter 00:31:50.330 --> 00:31:55.730 prior to full-scale production the first 00:31:55.730 --> 00:31:58.789 fa20 to built for the US Air Force was 00:31:58.789 --> 00:32:01.299 unveiled in a ceremony on April the 9th 00:32:01.299 --> 00:32:04.010 1997 at the company's headquarters in 00:32:04.010 --> 00:32:06.760 Marietta Georgia 00:32:09.570 --> 00:32:12.129 now Air Force pilots would get the 00:32:12.129 --> 00:32:13.840 opportunity to check up the new aircraft 00:32:13.840 --> 00:32:19.179 for themselves I would call the Raptor 00:32:19.179 --> 00:32:20.830 the Miss America while aircraft it's got 00:32:20.830 --> 00:32:22.419 the talent it's got the bikini contest 00:32:22.419 --> 00:32:24.940 one it's beautiful it's got all the 00:32:24.940 --> 00:32:26.980 capabilities it really wins the show in 00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:30.340 every aspect the airplane is eye 00:32:30.340 --> 00:32:33.669 watering it it does everything the pilot 00:32:33.669 --> 00:32:36.700 asked of it and it is very good at what 00:32:36.700 --> 00:32:40.529 it does first flown by the Air Force in 00:32:40.529 --> 00:32:43.539 1997 pilots at Edwards Air Force Base 00:32:43.539 --> 00:32:46.450 have surpassed 2,000 flight test hours 00:32:46.450 --> 00:32:50.309 in more than 900 missions 00:32:54.130 --> 00:32:57.400 the first time I went out one effe 22 me 00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:02.350 against four f-16s and they told me what 00:33:02.350 --> 00:33:03.490 they were going to do they were going to 00:33:03.490 --> 00:33:05.890 do everything possible to defeat my 00:33:05.890 --> 00:33:09.850 systems and I watched exactly what they 00:33:09.850 --> 00:33:13.500 did the entire time and shot them all 00:33:14.630 --> 00:33:16.640 it was almost too easy now it's almost 00:33:16.640 --> 00:33:19.750 laughing in the cockpit 00:33:20.410 --> 00:33:23.240 one of the key advances in the Raptors 00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:25.730 design is its advanced cockpit and 00:33:25.730 --> 00:33:31.190 integrated avionics systems but I think 00:33:31.190 --> 00:33:32.840 really where the Raptor gets its amazing 00:33:32.840 --> 00:33:35.630 capability is the fusion of all of the 00:33:35.630 --> 00:33:37.190 different sensors on the aircraft you 00:33:37.190 --> 00:33:39.830 have a tactical scope that combines the 00:33:39.830 --> 00:33:41.390 information of all the other sensors on 00:33:41.390 --> 00:33:43.310 the aircraft into one display for the 00:33:43.310 --> 00:33:45.620 pilot so as a pilot you don't have to 00:33:45.620 --> 00:33:48.350 sort through the radar or another sensor 00:33:48.350 --> 00:33:49.640 to see what's going on around you 00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.160 information this power and the way this 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.050 airplane displays information to you it 00:33:54.050 --> 00:33:55.250 gives you knowledge of the battlespace 00:33:55.250 --> 00:33:57.740 it's all about seeing what's out there 00:33:57.740 --> 00:33:59.180 in front of you and being able to make 00:33:59.180 --> 00:34:01.370 decisions about what to engage when to 00:34:01.370 --> 00:34:04.310 engage and how to engage it I'd say 00:34:04.310 --> 00:34:07.490 integrated avionics does two things for 00:34:07.490 --> 00:34:07.820 me 00:34:07.820 --> 00:34:10.400 number one it makes me a lot safer it 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:13.159 gives me less chance to crash my jet it 00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:15.380 also makes every pilot who flies this 00:34:15.380 --> 00:34:17.900 aircraft more deadly instead of having 00:34:17.900 --> 00:34:20.659 to do six or eight steps to achieve a 00:34:20.659 --> 00:34:24.699 kill you really only have to do one 00:34:25.040 --> 00:34:28.070 the raptor carries a formidable array of 00:34:28.070 --> 00:34:33.918 ordnance all of the Raptors weapons are 00:34:33.918 --> 00:34:36.980 housed inside the aircraft two bays at 00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:38.780 the bottom of the plane utilize a 00:34:38.780 --> 00:34:41.300 pneumatic style hydraulic launcher that 00:34:41.300 --> 00:34:43.159 literally punched the missiles or 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.830 Jaden's out of the aircraft with a force 00:34:45.830 --> 00:34:51.168 of 40 G and to side Bay's how's 00:34:51.168 --> 00:34:54.139 air-to-air missiles here a trapeze 00:34:54.139 --> 00:34:56.210 launcher moves the missile outside the 00:34:56.210 --> 00:34:58.580 airframe very rapidly a fraction of a 00:34:58.580 --> 00:35:02.050 second before the missile is fired and 00:35:02.050 --> 00:35:04.700 to complement the Raptors armament of 00:35:04.700 --> 00:35:07.040 eight missiles the fighter also has a 00:35:07.040 --> 00:35:10.160 gun at one point in the evolution of the 00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:12.680 advanced tactical fighter program the US 00:35:12.680 --> 00:35:14.360 Air Force had raised the question of 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:18.370 eliminating the gun to save weight 00:35:19.270 --> 00:35:22.210 I think that the designers of the FA 22 00:35:22.210 --> 00:35:24.520 realized mistakes of the past like the F 00:35:24.520 --> 00:35:26.350 for initially being designed without a 00:35:26.350 --> 00:35:28.240 gun and realize that you should never 00:35:28.240 --> 00:35:30.760 say never about a threat that you're 00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:32.170 going to face or a situation you're 00:35:32.170 --> 00:35:34.000 gonna find yourself in and so the raptor 00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:36.400 has designed itself a gun will anybody 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.110 get close enough for us to use the gun 00:35:38.110 --> 00:35:41.500 well hopefully not probably not by the 00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:44.230 late 90s pilots in the Raptor program 00:35:44.230 --> 00:35:46.240 were convinced that their aircraft was 00:35:46.240 --> 00:35:48.850 made of the right stuff that would 00:35:48.850 --> 00:35:51.070 easily be able to outperform and destroy 00:35:51.070 --> 00:35:54.030 any other fighter in existence 00:35:54.030 --> 00:35:56.370 it is the sum of the parts that makes 00:35:56.370 --> 00:35:59.460 the FA 22 so capable probably most 00:35:59.460 --> 00:36:01.670 important in my eyes is the stealth 00:36:01.670 --> 00:36:05.130 having an aircraft that nobody can see 00:36:05.130 --> 00:36:07.560 is just a tremendous tremendous 00:36:07.560 --> 00:36:10.920 advantage the speed the maneuverability 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:14.370 the precision all those factors are 00:36:14.370 --> 00:36:16.560 incredible also so when you put 00:36:16.560 --> 00:36:18.720 everything together the Raptor is just 00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:20.940 incredible 00:36:20.940 --> 00:36:23.790 but this belief was exclusively based on 00:36:23.790 --> 00:36:26.040 controlled flight and missile firing 00:36:26.040 --> 00:36:29.670 exercises what the Raptors pilots really 00:36:29.670 --> 00:36:32.819 needed was combat experience and they 00:36:32.819 --> 00:36:37.650 were about to get it before the FA 22 00:36:37.650 --> 00:36:40.020 Raptor enters operational service with 00:36:40.020 --> 00:36:42.750 the US Air Force in the autumn of 2005 00:36:42.750 --> 00:36:45.089 it will have completed thousands of 00:36:45.089 --> 00:36:48.600 hours of vigorous combat testing 00:36:48.600 --> 00:36:51.880 but since Desert Storm critics of the 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:54.820 f-22 program claim that the f-15 Eagle 00:36:54.820 --> 00:36:57.160 destined to be replaced by the Raptor 00:36:57.160 --> 00:36:59.740 already has the attributes necessary to 00:36:59.740 --> 00:37:01.420 remain the world's pre-eminent air 00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:03.970 superiority fighter well into the new 00:37:03.970 --> 00:37:06.180 millennium 00:37:11.170 --> 00:37:16.050 it is a view dismissed by the US efforts 00:37:16.050 --> 00:37:20.880 if you look at the f-15 the f-18 and 00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:24.330 compare it with existing fighters that 00:37:24.330 --> 00:37:27.600 are sold around the world today you'll 00:37:27.600 --> 00:37:29.700 find that today we're almost at Perry if 00:37:29.700 --> 00:37:32.510 we ever run up against an enemy that has 00:37:32.510 --> 00:37:35.940 the ability in terms of the aircrew to 00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:39.390 use those enemy fighters we will have a 00:37:39.390 --> 00:37:43.040 tough time with the current generation 00:37:43.520 --> 00:37:46.200 the f-15 is a great aircraft and in 00:37:46.200 --> 00:37:47.970 air-to-air it is outstanding however 00:37:47.970 --> 00:37:50.490 with the production of new fighters that 00:37:50.490 --> 00:37:53.370 are being produced today and also some 00:37:53.370 --> 00:37:55.290 service to air threats there are 00:37:55.290 --> 00:37:57.090 situations in the f-15 that would make 00:37:57.090 --> 00:37:59.420 me nervous 00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:08.190 in March 2003 supporters of the f-15 got 00:38:08.190 --> 00:38:10.170 the opportunity to see whether or not 00:38:10.170 --> 00:38:12.120 the eagle was still the best fighter in 00:38:12.120 --> 00:38:21.300 the sky five f-15s would go head-to-head 00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:24.830 with a single Raptor 00:38:25.530 --> 00:38:27.940 although no missiles would be used 00:38:27.940 --> 00:38:30.220 during the exercise the sorties would 00:38:30.220 --> 00:38:33.310 closely resemble actual combat no 00:38:33.310 --> 00:38:35.700 quarter would be given by either side 00:38:35.700 --> 00:38:38.800 this was a kill-or-be-killed 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:42.190 exercise there were five of us Ares in 00:38:42.190 --> 00:38:45.160 and me and my biggest concern was 00:38:45.160 --> 00:38:47.940 running out of weapons too soon 00:38:47.940 --> 00:38:51.460 all five f-15s are flown by experienced 00:38:51.460 --> 00:38:55.540 f-22 pilots one by one the rapt brings 00:38:55.540 --> 00:39:00.340 them down I could never see them I never 00:39:00.340 --> 00:39:02.980 knew that they were there and I died you 00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:05.310 got stuck 00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:08.170 roll up I could hear him on the radio 00:39:08.170 --> 00:39:10.869 calling his simulated missile shots Fox 00:39:10.869 --> 00:39:15.250 tube and knowing that this was getting 00:39:15.250 --> 00:39:16.869 really unnerving because I could also 00:39:16.869 --> 00:39:19.150 tell his range was was closing rapidly 00:39:19.150 --> 00:39:26.740 on me I don't think anybody ever saw me 00:39:26.740 --> 00:39:27.609 the entire time 00:39:27.609 --> 00:39:29.550 that while we were on the air space 00:39:29.550 --> 00:39:32.970 bandit bandit 00:39:32.990 --> 00:39:35.450 could not find him no matter what I did 00:39:35.450 --> 00:39:37.280 and the next time was when he flew 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:38.480 directly over the top of my hair from my 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:41.320 soaring vision 00:39:42.860 --> 00:39:45.110 I know firsthand from flying the Raptor 00:39:45.110 --> 00:39:46.700 against other aircraft and flying other 00:39:46.700 --> 00:39:49.280 aircraft against the Raptor that it's 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.330 like clubbing baby seals it's so easy 00:39:52.330 --> 00:39:54.830 the first indication you have that the 00:39:54.830 --> 00:39:58.040 net pay 22 is out in your area of 00:39:58.040 --> 00:40:00.080 responsibility is when you are in your 00:40:00.080 --> 00:40:02.000 parachute heading down towards earth and 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:03.380 your your jet is falling a little bit 00:40:03.380 --> 00:40:06.130 faster than you are 00:40:06.670 --> 00:40:10.810 in combat testing with f-15s the fa 22 00:40:10.810 --> 00:40:12.790 Raptor has emphatically proven its 00:40:12.790 --> 00:40:15.300 doubters wrong 00:40:15.900 --> 00:40:17.880 there been times when the rapture has 00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.230 gone up to vs. 8 against f15 and it ends 00:40:22.230 --> 00:40:24.539 up being boring for the adversaries 00:40:24.539 --> 00:40:27.079 because no matter what they do they die 00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:29.700 having flown the f-15 and now having 00:40:29.700 --> 00:40:32.250 flown the Raptor and seeing combat I 00:40:32.250 --> 00:40:33.270 would not want to be on the receiving 00:40:33.270 --> 00:40:37.140 end of what the fa 23 was capable we 00:40:37.140 --> 00:40:39.599 will take on anything any combination of 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:43.020 the latest the latest aircraft that we 00:40:43.020 --> 00:40:44.789 can throw it ourselves and we usually 00:40:44.789 --> 00:40:52.079 win today 27 fa 22 Raptors have been 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:54.450 delivered to the US air force and are in 00:40:54.450 --> 00:40:56.849 limited operation at Edwards Nellis and 00:40:56.849 --> 00:41:01.410 Tyndall Air Force bases many more will 00:41:01.410 --> 00:41:03.359 follow 00:41:03.359 --> 00:41:05.920 the air force has agreed to a final 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:08.730 production run of almost 300 aircraft I 00:41:08.730 --> 00:41:13.450 think 300 FA 20s will tip the scales of 00:41:13.450 --> 00:41:16.090 any conflict in our favor I think that 00:41:16.090 --> 00:41:20.170 any country who sees 300 FA 22s flying 00:41:20.170 --> 00:41:21.820 towards it has got to get a little 00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:24.000 nervous 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:26.140 Lockheed expects that a full production 00:41:26.140 --> 00:41:28.750 rate of 60 aircraft per year will have 00:41:28.750 --> 00:41:31.450 been achieved by the end of 2004 and 00:41:31.450 --> 00:41:33.820 with components and parts coming from 00:41:33.820 --> 00:41:36.520 four to six congressional states the fa 00:41:36.520 --> 00:41:43.390 22 is truly a national effort costing a 00:41:43.390 --> 00:41:46.300 massive 93 million dollars each the 00:41:46.300 --> 00:41:48.369 Raptor is certainly the world's most 00:41:48.369 --> 00:41:50.859 expensive fighter aircraft but for many 00:41:50.859 --> 00:41:53.510 it is money well spent 00:41:53.510 --> 00:41:55.520 yeah this is something special this was 00:41:55.520 --> 00:41:58.070 not like an f15 on steroids or an f-16 00:41:58.070 --> 00:42:00.410 on steroids this is the real thing with 00:42:00.410 --> 00:42:02.840 a leap of technology that's orders of 00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:04.160 magnitude better than what we have there 00:42:04.160 --> 00:42:08.510 the interesting thing about the f-22 00:42:08.510 --> 00:42:11.810 though is it is a fixed volume with an 00:42:11.810 --> 00:42:14.810 infinitely increasing ability in terms 00:42:14.810 --> 00:42:16.970 of its computer capabilities if you 00:42:16.970 --> 00:42:18.740 think about the airplane has fixed holes 00:42:18.740 --> 00:42:21.170 in the sides of the fuselage where 00:42:21.170 --> 00:42:24.290 computers sit today in the future there 00:42:24.290 --> 00:42:26.480 will be more computer capacity that 00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:28.400 requires less power going in that same 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:31.250 physical hole so the fa20 to over the 00:42:31.250 --> 00:42:33.020 course of life will become a more and 00:42:33.020 --> 00:42:34.730 more flexible and warm more potent 00:42:34.730 --> 00:42:39.640 machine as computer capacity increases 00:42:41.160 --> 00:42:44.890 America's fa20 to Raptor was created out 00:42:44.890 --> 00:42:47.230 of the Cold War fear that Russian made 00:42:47.230 --> 00:42:51.570 fighters would sweep aside the f-15 00:42:52.859 --> 00:42:55.780 but the world has changed since the 00:42:55.780 --> 00:42:59.099 frigid days of the Cold War 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:03.800 the Soviet Union no longer exists and 00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:06.260 the f-15 has more than earned the fear 00:43:06.260 --> 00:43:08.690 and respected commands as the current 00:43:08.690 --> 00:43:12.520 frontline fighter for the US Air Force 00:43:14.299 --> 00:43:18.890 but the Raptor Lockheed's fa20 - looks 00:43:18.890 --> 00:43:21.619 all set to carry US air force doctrine 00:43:21.619 --> 00:43:28.249 well into the 21st century I'd be 00:43:28.249 --> 00:43:30.589 terrified to to go into the arena with 00:43:30.589 --> 00:43:31.489 something like that 00:43:31.489 --> 00:43:34.849 I really would I've been on the 00:43:34.849 --> 00:43:36.999 receiving end of it in testing and 00:43:36.999 --> 00:43:39.349 mentally translated myself to what if 00:43:39.349 --> 00:43:42.109 this was combat and it is a unnerving na 00:43:42.109 --> 00:43:45.650 a disquieting feeling to fly in the same 00:43:45.650 --> 00:43:47.269 airspace with more these airlines I 00:43:47.269 --> 00:43:49.670 would say that it's not fair to our 00:43:49.670 --> 00:43:51.920 enemies or even our own technology to 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:53.539 fight against the Raptor but the goal of 00:43:53.539 --> 00:43:55.339 war isn't fair that we don't go into 00:43:55.339 --> 00:43:58.039 combat because we want a fair fight 00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:00.380 we want to win as fast as possible with 00:44:00.380 --> 00:44:02.479 as little loss of life as possible and 00:44:02.479 --> 00:44:04.160 the Raptor allows that to do that for 00:44:04.160 --> 00:44:05.950 generations to come 00:44:05.950 --> 00:44:08.920 in today's changing world there are few 00:44:08.920 --> 00:44:11.760 certainties but the rule of the Raptor 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:14.920 America's air dominance fighter over the 00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:18.930 skies is one of them 00:44:21.290 --> 00:00:00.000 you