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    this aircraft is the most advanced of
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    its breed built around the first look
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    first shot first kill ethos it is all
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    set to become the air dominant stealth
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    fighter of the 21st century the Raptor
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    is a killing machine just like the name
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    implies as deadly as it looks it's even
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    more deadly when a gas gets out there
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    and does its job
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    deadly and undetectable at long range
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    this breathtaking fifth-generation
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    fighter blends unmatched dogfighting
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    with precision strike ground attack
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    capabilities you literally are able to
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    swim through the sharks and the sharks
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    never see you and never know you're
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    there at any point in time you can reach
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    out and touch them with deadly force
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    capable of super crews and packing a
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    deadly array of state-of-the-art missile
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    systems this stealth jet of the new
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    millennium can intercept and strike any
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    target with near impunity they die they
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    die without knowing where the Raptors
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    are they die without knowing that they
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    were targeted they die often now using
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    unique footage will take you on an
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    all-access tour of America's newest
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    super weapon the FA 22 rut
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    1981 in his first press conference as
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    chief executive of the United States
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    Ronald Wilson Reagan offered a deal to
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    the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev if
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    Soviet ss-20 missiles aimed at Western
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    Europe were removed America would not
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    deploy its Pershing to cruise missiles
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    to counter the threat
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    throughout the 1960s and 70s the Soviets
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    developed different missiles to attack
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    in different altitude bands you couldn't
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    fly under the missile threat you
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    couldn't fly over the missile threat you
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    had to deal with the missile threat one
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    way to do that is to make suppression of
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    enemy air defense that is destroying the
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    missile sites in the radars the most
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    important mission for the Air Force by
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    the 1970s air superiority had reimagine
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    and the US Air Force committed to
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    building its first pure air superiority
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    fighter an aircraft that would
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    eventually become the f-15 Eagle
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    but just as f-15s became operational in
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    1978 alarming new evidence suggested
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    that the new fighter superiority might
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    only be temperament
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    u.s. reconnaissance satellites passing
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    over a Soviet flight test center north
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    of Moscow discover new Soviet fighters
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    being tested one was the agile fighter
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    the Mikoyan mig-29 but the other came as
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    a huge shock to Western analysts it was
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    bigger than the f-15 and far bigger than
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    any previous Soviet built fighter the
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    Sukhoi t10 prototype at that time the
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    Soviet Union initiated some very
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    aggressive programs to come up with
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    counters in both the mckeon and Sukhoi
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    both those design bureaus initiated new
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    aircraft development efforts and it
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    appeared that they run a track they
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    would field some very advanced fighters
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    if the mig-29 had concerned the American
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    military establishment the existence of
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    the Sukhoi t10 set alarm bells ringing
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    these are very good aircraft their
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    aircraft that play in the same league as
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    some of the top NATO aircraft like
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    phantom and ultimately like f-15
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    the goal is world peace just weeks into
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    his first term America's 40th president
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    increased US defense spending by thirty
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    two point five billion dollars and began
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    the rearmament of the United States on a
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    colossal scale
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    in 1981 the Cold War was getting very
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    warm
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    as Reagan and Brezhnev squared up the US
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    Air Force concluded that it urgently
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    needed a replacement for its f15 an
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    Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF that
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    would have no equal as American planners
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    start to develop the concept of air land
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    battle to fight World War three the u.s.
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    air force starts to think about the kind
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    of equipment it wants to have when it
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    comes time to fight the war at that time
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    in the secretive black world of advanced
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    aviation development one technology had
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    emerged at the forefront of all military
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    aircraft development stealth during that
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    period the late 1970s of course in what
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    we call the black world in the in the
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    world of secret programs there was a
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    great effort going on to come up with
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    counters to these new Soviet weapon
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    systems that could enable us to knock
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    out their Sam system and that of course
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    led to the development of the f-117
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    analysis of air-to-air combat in Vietnam
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    called
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    the Red Baron study and kick-started the
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    race for stealth an operational analysis
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    study showed in Vietnam that most
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    aircraft were killed by other aircraft
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    that they hadn't seen so from this you
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    get the idea that if the aircraft isn't
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    seen it has a tremendous advantage
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    air combat data from world war ii and
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    korea had reinforced this need for
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    invisibility
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    so from this in a process of operational
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    analysis the US Air Force learns that
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    what you really need to do is be
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    invisible to the enemy and that means
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    that an aircraft is designed to be as
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    near as possible invisible to an enemy
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    fighter aircraft it's geometry is
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    designed to give it a very low profile
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    that is to make it very invisible to an
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    oncoming fighter aircraft using
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    high-frequency fighter aircraft radar
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    the principle of stealth technology is
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    to literally make an aeroplane invisible
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    to the enemy an aircraft's shape must
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    reflect incoming radio waves away from
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    the enemy radar rather than towards it
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    to further increase low observable
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    characteristics an aeroplane is then
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    covered in materials that absorb radar
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    signals further reducing its visibility
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    on a radar screen
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    stealth doesn't mean invisible
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    it just means less visible operational
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    analysis shows that if you apply certain
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    computer models to air-to-air combat the
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    more stealthy aircraft the one that's
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    harder to see is likely or to win
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    leading the way in stealth technology
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    was Lockheed skunkworks
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    in the late 1970s tell wasn't widely
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    known outside of a few companies the
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    ability to integrate stealth technology
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    shaping for stealth and the materials
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    was really only well known in two
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    companies it was Lockheed and Northrop
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    in 1977 amid unprecedented security
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    Lockheed had flown a prototype of the
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    world's first stealth fighter and by the
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    1980s during Operation Just Cause its
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    f-117 had helped to destroy general
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    Noriega --zz regime in Panama now the US
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    Air Force decided that any new fighter
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    must incorporate stealth technology and
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    identified two other areas in which a
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    future air superiority fighter should
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    excel
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    well at that stage of the game was clear
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    that the Air Force wanted a stealthy
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    fighter it was also clear that they
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    wanted an airplane that would
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    supercruise in other words run
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    supersonically without lighting off to
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    afterburners and they didn't want to
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    sacrifice any of the classic fighter
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    maneuverability so they wanted a fighter
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    that besides all the new technology
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    would maneuver as well or better than
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    the f-15 in October 1982 representatives
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    from fighter manufacturers met with the
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    US Air Force and began to identify the
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    specific must-haves for the new fighter
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    at the time there were eight contractors
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    of built combat aircraft in the States
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    seven of those responded to a request
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    for proposals from that period of 1983
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    to 85 or 86 was a process of refinement
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    you know narrowing down the specific
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    parameters it must be a supersonic
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    cruise aircraft with a combat radius of
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    seven to nine hundred miles with reduced
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    observables if possible the aircraft
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    would have to be able to operate on a
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    2,000 foot runway and must be easier to
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    maintain than an f-15
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    the challenge had been issued now it was
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    up to the finest aviation manufacturers
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    in the world to respond I'm a village
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    optimist and I have to say that the
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    requirements were very demanding but I
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    didn't have any I didn't have any strong
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    feeling that we couldn't do this the
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    Advanced Tactical Fighter program was
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    about to begin and the Raptor America's
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    fifth-generation fighter was about to be
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    hatched by 1983 us-soviet relations had
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    reached a new low
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    following Leonid Brezhnev's death the
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    Politburo now controlled by ex-kgb boss
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    yuri and drop off had been labeled by
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    reagan as the focus of evil in the
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    modern world
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    continuing his policy of rearmament
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    Reagan announced plans for the Strategic
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    Defense Initiative better known as Star
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    Wars and Moscow reacted furiously
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    publishing polar prodigy in a Russian
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    capoeira a marathon see a Kaboodle's
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    Nina gusta get their image legally not
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    August when Korean Airlines flight
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    double-oh-seven on its way to Seoul from
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    New York strayed several hundred miles
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    off course into Soviet airspace Russia
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    acted a fighter was sent up and the
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    civilian airliner with 269 people on
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    board was shot down
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    a shooting down of kaal double-oh-seven
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    sent shockwaves around the world
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    straining international relations almost
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    a breaking point but can we think of a
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    regime that so broadly trumpets its
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    vision of peace and global disarmament
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    and yet so callously and quickly commits
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    a terrorist act to sacrifice the lives
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    of innocent human beings
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    Regan's reaction to the crisis
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    strengthened u.s. conviction that
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    stealth would now be the prime
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    requirement for America's new feisty
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    some senior people the Pentagon looked
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    at the stealth requirements and decided
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    they were inadequate and they radically
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    changed him so the stealth became a
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    really major dominant requirement in the
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    program in this politically charged
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    climate the US Air Force created its
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    Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF system
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    program office based at wright-patterson
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    Air Force Base in Ohio Colonel Albert CP
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    Carrillo is placed in charge of the
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    division one of the things we really
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    wanted was the ability to leverage
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    stealth in a high-performance fighter
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    and we also wanted this high-performance
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    fighter to still be capable of good
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    clothes in within visual range
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    maneuvering capability in fact we wanted
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    more than just existing capability in
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    something the manufacturers are invited
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    to submit concepts for an aircraft with
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    an operational radius of 800 miles
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    enough to allow it to operate over the
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    entire central region of Europe from
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    bases in central England it should have
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    low observable characteristics and be
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    able to cruise at Mach 1 point 5 for an
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    astonishing 600 miles
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    we weren't building an airplane for the
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    1990s although that was what we were
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    trying to do we were really building a
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    fighter for the 21st century that could
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    take on all of the advanced threats that
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    the Soviet Union was likely to throw in
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    itself all of the teams would have their
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    work cut out for them
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    but importantly the military added
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    another complicating factor at the end
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    of the concept demonstration phase the
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    decision was made by the Air Force to
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    launch a demonstration validation phase
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    of the program that would involve
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    building to flight demonstrators YF type
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    airplanes that would then be evaluated
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    they didn't after that full armament
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    they didn't have to have avionics they
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    didn't have to have stealth coatings but
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    essentially they were going to go out
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    show us what you can do but building
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    prototype aircraft is expensive and no
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    one manufacturer could afford it on
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    their own
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    they all know that they must invest so
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    much money and developing that if they
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    don't get the contract they're going to
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    be so out of pocket it's gonna hurt the
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    company badly
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    we Lockheed made a policy decision at
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    the CEO level that we would seek teaming
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    so the bottom line is we ended up
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    deciding that we would team with Boeing
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    and General Dynamics Fort Worth each
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    manufacturer would submit a design for
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    the demonstration valuation or Denville
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    competition but had agreed that the
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    winning company would be the prime
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    contractor and its partners
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    subcontracted to produce major
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    components
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    everybody's investment will be at least
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    partly repaid because everybody gets
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    piece of the action seven designs for
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    the Air Force competition was submitted
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    for final evaluation all of the seven
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    contractors came in with designs that
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    were very feasible and it could that
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    could have been built the question was
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    which were the best and then how did we
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    determined that they really were good
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    enough to manufacturers with strong
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    experience in stealth technology
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    Northrop with its b2
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    and Lockheed with its f-117 lead the way
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    northrop's Advanced Tactical Fighter or
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    ATF design was for an alien looking
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    aircraft with diamond planform wings and
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    huge V tails it was a design that
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    stressed speed and stealth Northrop came
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    in with a an airplane that really from
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    the very beginning look just like the Y
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    of 23 that eventually was built as well
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    Lockheed's entry echoed that of the
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    f-117 it's vectored thrust Arrowhead
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    shape trapezoidal wings and four tails
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    ensure that the aircraft would be
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    maneuverable the fact was that Lockheed
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    and Northrop had significant advantages
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    in the fact that they had built stealth
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    aircraft and flown them it's big
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    credibility factor there
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    on October 31st 1986 both Lockheed and
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    Northrop ATF designs were declared the
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    winners of the competition under the
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    terms of the dem val competition each
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    team would build two aircraft
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    at the end of the process one of two
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    designs would become America's new
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    Advanced Tactical Fighter costing
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    billions of dollars the new fighter
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    would make a technological leap into the
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    21st century just nine months after
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    being selected to build to demonstration
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    valuation fighters for the US Air Force
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    Lockheed shocked everyone and scrapped
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    its original design in July of 87 we
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    looked at our design at that time and we
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    looked at what we thought it would weigh
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    and how it would perform and with no
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    input from the Air Force we decided to
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    start over so between July 13th of 87
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    and mid-october that year basically
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    that's where the f-22 came into the
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    world in a hectic three-month process
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    with help from its partners lockheed
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    produced a completely different
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    configuration with a clipped delta wing
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    we changed to clip diamond wings which
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    gave us almost the same aerodynamic
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    performance but a lot lower structural
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    weight we did the same thing with the
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    trapezoidal horizontal tails and the
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    same thing with the verticals
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    over the next four years at a cost of
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    just over two billion dollars America's
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    tactical fighter competition became the
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    largest program of its kind
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    and in 1990 just months after the
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    disintegration of the Soviet Union the
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    shapes of the two rival designs were
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    finally unveiled and now ladies and
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    gentlemen I proudly present to you the
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    yf-22 a prototype for US air superiority
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    in the 21st century
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    on behalf of the entire team I am
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    honored to present the yf-23
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    Northrop's version called the yf-23
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    closely resembled its original design
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    well it was the most unusual looking at
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    very futuristic it had twin details as
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    opposed to what's called a cruciform
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    twin verticals and twin horizontals I
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    had a large trapezoidal wing and it had
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    a very slender shape and looked at for
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    me a John view in contrast Lockheed's
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    design called the yf-22 seemed
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    surprisingly conventional with four tail
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    surfaces vectored thrust a broad solid
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    body and a conventional wing but unlike
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    Lockheed's other stealth aircraft the
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    f-117 radar absorbent materials were not
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    applied over the whole of the FA 22 but
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    used selectively on its edges cavities
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    and crucial surface areas
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    you walk around the airplane everywhere
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    you look about what you see is something
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    that's designed to do the job in the
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    most efficient and effective way and no
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    wasted space no wasted capability it's
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    truly an airplane it's intended and has
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    been optimized for its job
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    the f-22 carries its weapons internally
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    for weapons bays are hidden in the
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    central mid-body section six missiles
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    can be carried in the ventral Bay's
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    which are covered with bi-fold doors the
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    side bays will each hold one Sidewinder
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    missile carried on a trapeze launcher
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    the mid-body section also houses the
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    fighters landing gear and complex in met
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    ducts right from day one on the f-22 we
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    decided to put s-shaped
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    Inlet ducts on it so the airplane is
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    built with s-shape Inlet ducts so that
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    there's no way a radar is ever seeing
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    the forward face of the jet engine
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    attached to the mid-body is the four
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    body which accommodates the cockpit and
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    advanced avionics both the yf-23 and the
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    yf-22 are impressive-looking machines
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    but their performance still needs to be
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    tested the most crucial stage of the
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    competition is still to come the flight
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    testing
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    Northrop was first in the air in August
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    1990 flown by Paul Metz the yf-23 got
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    airborne
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    the test was a huge success but Lockheed
  • 22:56 - 22:59
    was quick to respond and on September
  • 22:59 - 23:01
    the 29th at Edwards Air Force Base in
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    California
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    Lockheed chief test pilot Dave Ferguson
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    prepared the raptor for its maiden
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    flight I pulled on her runway and looked
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    down the runway it was just a feeling of
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    really relief and that we're going to do
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    it and I ran the airplane up to 80%
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    military power
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    and acceleration was just amazing I mean
  • 23:30 - 23:34
    it was like an f15 in full afterburner
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    and I thought the only thing in this
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    airplane that's ever flown before it was
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    me and I think in the back of my mind I
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    was saying please fly please fly when I
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    pulled your nose up and it just lifted
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    off
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    I was fully aware we had a wonderful
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    flying airplane and the handling
  • 24:16 - 24:18
    qualities in the takeoff and landing
  • 24:18 - 24:20
    their power approach as we call it were
  • 24:20 - 24:27
    just absolutely superb when I landed in
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    Sherman at the airplane I said hey boss
  • 24:29 - 24:33
    we really have a winner here the way the
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    f-22 performed was no surprise to
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    anybody who was involved in the program
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    not at all I mean my money has been on
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    the f-22 from early 1985 it'll be there
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    till I'm gone over the next three months
  • 24:51 - 24:53
    the Raptor underwent a whole series of
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    tests the Air Force required both teams
  • 24:56 - 24:59
    to give them performance projections and
  • 24:59 - 25:02
    then they were going to actually compare
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    that with what the airplanes actually
  • 25:03 - 25:05
    did in flight subsonic supersonic at
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    different altitudes and so forth
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    the winner of this stage would earn a
  • 25:10 - 25:14
    contract for 650 aircraft the decision
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    would hinge not just on what the
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    contractors promised but on the Air
  • 25:18 - 25:20
    Force's confidence in their ability to
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    deliver
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    we expected to get a lot of flying done
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    in the 90 days we actually got 72
  • 25:28 - 25:30
    flights out of two airplanes in 90 days
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    and that is about as good as you can do
  • 25:37 - 25:40
    during flight testing the Raptor had
  • 25:40 - 25:43
    beaten northrop yf-23 in a number of
  • 25:43 - 25:47
    crucial performance areas
  • 25:48 - 25:51
    we'd focused on the supersonic testing
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    including super cruising and we did
  • 25:54 - 25:56
    something that Northrop didn't do and
  • 25:56 - 25:57
    that is we did launch a couple of
  • 25:57 - 26:00
    missiles we launched a Sidewinder out of
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    the internal side bay on our prototype
  • 26:03 - 26:05
    airplanes and we launched an AM Ram
  • 26:05 - 26:08
    long-range air-to-air missile out of the
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    internal web space the yf-22 had clearly
  • 26:13 - 26:15
    shown that in every category
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    it was far superior to any existing
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    fighter the Air Force was was very
  • 26:22 - 26:24
    impressed by what Lockheed had done
  • 26:24 - 26:25
    their flight test program was very
  • 26:25 - 26:30
    aggressive they flew hard and fast they
  • 26:30 - 26:32
    flew many more hours and sorties than
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    Northrop did and all of that gave the
  • 26:34 - 26:36
    Air Force confidence that they knew what
  • 26:36 - 26:38
    they were doing high confidence and they
  • 26:38 - 26:41
    could build a superior airplane
  • 26:44 - 26:47
    but it would be events in 1991 that
  • 26:47 - 26:51
    would carve out the Raptors future
  • 26:54 - 26:57
    22 minutes after midnight on January the
  • 26:57 - 26:59
    17th 1991
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    Lockheed's stealth f-117 spearheaded
  • 27:03 - 27:05
    u.s. stripes against Saddam Hussein's
  • 27:05 - 27:09
    regime the performance of Lockheed
  • 27:09 - 27:11
    stealth bombers during Operation Desert
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    Storm would give the company and its
  • 27:14 - 27:16
    aircraft some priceless publicity
  • 27:16 - 27:22
    I think clearly Lockheed was benefited
  • 27:22 - 27:26
    in 1991 by the Gulf War where the f-117
  • 27:26 - 27:28
    was it was a star performer and there
  • 27:28 - 27:32
    were skeptics of stealth even as late as
  • 27:32 - 27:36
    that that had to be beneficial to the
  • 27:36 - 27:40
    program but another aircraft also
  • 27:40 - 27:42
    emerged from the Gulf War with a glowing
  • 27:42 - 27:45
    reputation
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    you
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    the f-15 the aircraft destined to be
  • 27:53 - 27:55
    replaced by the ATF had emphatically
  • 27:55 - 27:58
    confirmed its status as the foremost air
  • 27:58 - 28:03
    superiority fighter in the world now it
  • 28:03 - 28:04
    appeared that the need for an advanced
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    stealthy fighter the f-22 might be
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    totally unfounded it's all like the f-15
  • 28:11 - 28:14
    wasn't any good it's good aircraft it's
  • 28:14 - 28:16
    still a good aircraft it will be a good
  • 28:16 - 28:18
    aircraft for years to come you could
  • 28:18 - 28:20
    even just chew up the factory and keep
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    building new f50 - why not
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    yeah but not everyone agrees the big
  • 28:26 - 28:29
    weakness in their argument is they are
  • 28:29 - 28:30
    making a statement about world
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    conditions today and what the threats
  • 28:32 - 28:35
    are today the real issue is what
  • 28:35 - 28:39
    capability you want for 2025 or 2030 the
  • 28:39 - 28:41
    people who say you don't need this they
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    think the world is not going to change
  • 28:43 - 28:46
    in the next 20 years and that is a hell
  • 28:46 - 28:51
    of an assertion by April 1991 bogged
  • 28:51 - 28:54
    down by the f-15 debate the US Air Force
  • 28:54 - 28:56
    prepares to announce the winner of the
  • 28:56 - 28:59
    Advanced Tactical Fighter contract but
  • 28:59 - 29:01
    would the Raptor emerge from the
  • 29:01 - 29:05
    controversy unscathed
  • 29:11 - 29:15
    on April the 1st 1991 the US Air Force
  • 29:15 - 29:18
    awarded a nine and a half billion dollar
  • 29:18 - 29:20
    contract to the Lockheed Boeing General
  • 29:20 - 29:22
    Dynamics team responsible for the
  • 29:22 - 29:28
    winning f-22 Raptor design having won
  • 29:28 - 29:30
    the contract Lockheed announced that it
  • 29:30 - 29:32
    intended to locate the f-22 s
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    headquarters in Georgia where the
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    Raptors forward fuselage would be built
  • 29:37 - 29:40
    General Dynamics were build the f-22s
  • 29:40 - 29:42
    mid-body section in Fort Worth Texas and
  • 29:42 - 29:45
    Boeing would manufacture the wings and
  • 29:45 - 29:49
    tail in Seattle Washington
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    but just eight months after the contract
  • 29:54 - 29:56
    was awarded the program hit its first
  • 29:56 - 30:00
    major snag we lost one of the yf-22
  • 30:00 - 30:02
    fortunately the test pilot who was a
  • 30:02 - 30:04
    good friend of mine then and now walked
  • 30:04 - 30:09
    away unharmed during preliminary testing
  • 30:09 - 30:11
    the unthinkable happened
  • 30:11 - 30:15
    a yf-22 flown by Tom Morgan fell crashed
  • 30:15 - 30:18
    just after takeoff
  • 30:20 - 30:23
    as this unique footage shows the
  • 30:23 - 30:24
    aircraft's thrust vectoring system
  • 30:24 - 30:29
    forces it to belly land on the runway a
  • 30:29 - 30:33
    key element of the Raptors design thrust
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    vectoring uses movable exhaust nozzles
  • 30:35 - 30:37
    to alter the angle of thrust from the
  • 30:37 - 30:40
    two Pratt & Whitney engines
  • 30:40 - 30:43
    as the Raptor makes its low-level flyby
  • 30:43 - 30:46
    Tom Morgan felt keeps the stick forward
  • 30:46 - 30:49
    to keep the nose down but as the landing
  • 30:49 - 30:51
    gear is retracted the thrust vectoring
  • 30:51 - 30:54
    engages and pushes the aircraft towards
  • 30:54 - 30:56
    the tarmac as the pilot struggles to
  • 30:56 - 30:58
    correct this change in direction the
  • 30:58 - 31:06
    Raptor C soars the fundamental error
  • 31:06 - 31:07
    there had nothing to do with the
  • 31:07 - 31:10
    airplane it had to do with the fact that
  • 31:10 - 31:13
    you don't fly a green airplane and fly
  • 31:13 - 31:16
    it at low speeds at low altitudes the
  • 31:16 - 31:18
    cause of that accident was stupidity on
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    the part of the management it had
  • 31:19 - 31:22
    nothing to do with technology
  • 31:22 - 31:24
    despite the loss of the stealth aircraft
  • 31:24 - 31:29
    the program had achieved its major goals
  • 31:29 - 31:33
    ten million man-hours of analysis four
  • 31:33 - 31:35
    thousand hours of radar testing and
  • 31:35 - 31:37
    hundreds of hours of flight testing had
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    gone into the development of the
  • 31:39 - 31:41
    aircraft even before construction was
  • 31:41 - 31:44
    given the going
  • 31:44 - 31:48
    in fact the f-22 has accomplished more
  • 31:48 - 31:50
    flight testing than any other fighter
  • 31:50 - 31:56
    prior to full-scale production the first
  • 31:56 - 31:59
    fa20 to built for the US Air Force was
  • 31:59 - 32:01
    unveiled in a ceremony on April the 9th
  • 32:01 - 32:04
    1997 at the company's headquarters in
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    Marietta Georgia
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    now Air Force pilots would get the
  • 32:12 - 32:14
    opportunity to check up the new aircraft
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    for themselves I would call the Raptor
  • 32:19 - 32:21
    the Miss America while aircraft it's got
  • 32:21 - 32:22
    the talent it's got the bikini contest
  • 32:22 - 32:25
    one it's beautiful it's got all the
  • 32:25 - 32:27
    capabilities it really wins the show in
  • 32:27 - 32:30
    every aspect the airplane is eye
  • 32:30 - 32:34
    watering it it does everything the pilot
  • 32:34 - 32:37
    asked of it and it is very good at what
  • 32:37 - 32:41
    it does first flown by the Air Force in
  • 32:41 - 32:44
    1997 pilots at Edwards Air Force Base
  • 32:44 - 32:46
    have surpassed 2,000 flight test hours
  • 32:46 - 32:50
    in more than 900 missions
  • 32:54 - 32:57
    the first time I went out one effe 22 me
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    against four f-16s and they told me what
  • 33:02 - 33:03
    they were going to do they were going to
  • 33:03 - 33:06
    do everything possible to defeat my
  • 33:06 - 33:10
    systems and I watched exactly what they
  • 33:10 - 33:14
    did the entire time and shot them all
  • 33:15 - 33:17
    it was almost too easy now it's almost
  • 33:17 - 33:20
    laughing in the cockpit
  • 33:20 - 33:23
    one of the key advances in the Raptors
  • 33:23 - 33:26
    design is its advanced cockpit and
  • 33:26 - 33:31
    integrated avionics systems but I think
  • 33:31 - 33:33
    really where the Raptor gets its amazing
  • 33:33 - 33:36
    capability is the fusion of all of the
  • 33:36 - 33:37
    different sensors on the aircraft you
  • 33:37 - 33:40
    have a tactical scope that combines the
  • 33:40 - 33:41
    information of all the other sensors on
  • 33:41 - 33:43
    the aircraft into one display for the
  • 33:43 - 33:46
    pilot so as a pilot you don't have to
  • 33:46 - 33:48
    sort through the radar or another sensor
  • 33:48 - 33:50
    to see what's going on around you
  • 33:50 - 33:52
    information this power and the way this
  • 33:52 - 33:54
    airplane displays information to you it
  • 33:54 - 33:55
    gives you knowledge of the battlespace
  • 33:55 - 33:58
    it's all about seeing what's out there
  • 33:58 - 33:59
    in front of you and being able to make
  • 33:59 - 34:01
    decisions about what to engage when to
  • 34:01 - 34:04
    engage and how to engage it I'd say
  • 34:04 - 34:07
    integrated avionics does two things for
  • 34:07 - 34:08
    me
  • 34:08 - 34:10
    number one it makes me a lot safer it
  • 34:10 - 34:13
    gives me less chance to crash my jet it
  • 34:13 - 34:15
    also makes every pilot who flies this
  • 34:15 - 34:18
    aircraft more deadly instead of having
  • 34:18 - 34:21
    to do six or eight steps to achieve a
  • 34:21 - 34:25
    kill you really only have to do one
  • 34:25 - 34:28
    the raptor carries a formidable array of
  • 34:28 - 34:34
    ordnance all of the Raptors weapons are
  • 34:34 - 34:37
    housed inside the aircraft two bays at
  • 34:37 - 34:39
    the bottom of the plane utilize a
  • 34:39 - 34:41
    pneumatic style hydraulic launcher that
  • 34:41 - 34:43
    literally punched the missiles or
  • 34:43 - 34:46
    Jaden's out of the aircraft with a force
  • 34:46 - 34:51
    of 40 G and to side Bay's how's
  • 34:51 - 34:54
    air-to-air missiles here a trapeze
  • 34:54 - 34:56
    launcher moves the missile outside the
  • 34:56 - 34:59
    airframe very rapidly a fraction of a
  • 34:59 - 35:02
    second before the missile is fired and
  • 35:02 - 35:05
    to complement the Raptors armament of
  • 35:05 - 35:07
    eight missiles the fighter also has a
  • 35:07 - 35:10
    gun at one point in the evolution of the
  • 35:10 - 35:13
    advanced tactical fighter program the US
  • 35:13 - 35:14
    Air Force had raised the question of
  • 35:14 - 35:18
    eliminating the gun to save weight
  • 35:19 - 35:22
    I think that the designers of the FA 22
  • 35:22 - 35:25
    realized mistakes of the past like the F
  • 35:25 - 35:26
    for initially being designed without a
  • 35:26 - 35:28
    gun and realize that you should never
  • 35:28 - 35:31
    say never about a threat that you're
  • 35:31 - 35:32
    going to face or a situation you're
  • 35:32 - 35:34
    gonna find yourself in and so the raptor
  • 35:34 - 35:36
    has designed itself a gun will anybody
  • 35:36 - 35:38
    get close enough for us to use the gun
  • 35:38 - 35:42
    well hopefully not probably not by the
  • 35:42 - 35:44
    late 90s pilots in the Raptor program
  • 35:44 - 35:46
    were convinced that their aircraft was
  • 35:46 - 35:49
    made of the right stuff that would
  • 35:49 - 35:51
    easily be able to outperform and destroy
  • 35:51 - 35:54
    any other fighter in existence
  • 35:54 - 35:56
    it is the sum of the parts that makes
  • 35:56 - 35:59
    the FA 22 so capable probably most
  • 35:59 - 36:02
    important in my eyes is the stealth
  • 36:02 - 36:05
    having an aircraft that nobody can see
  • 36:05 - 36:08
    is just a tremendous tremendous
  • 36:08 - 36:11
    advantage the speed the maneuverability
  • 36:11 - 36:14
    the precision all those factors are
  • 36:14 - 36:17
    incredible also so when you put
  • 36:17 - 36:19
    everything together the Raptor is just
  • 36:19 - 36:21
    incredible
  • 36:21 - 36:24
    but this belief was exclusively based on
  • 36:24 - 36:26
    controlled flight and missile firing
  • 36:26 - 36:30
    exercises what the Raptors pilots really
  • 36:30 - 36:33
    needed was combat experience and they
  • 36:33 - 36:38
    were about to get it before the FA 22
  • 36:38 - 36:40
    Raptor enters operational service with
  • 36:40 - 36:43
    the US Air Force in the autumn of 2005
  • 36:43 - 36:45
    it will have completed thousands of
  • 36:45 - 36:49
    hours of vigorous combat testing
  • 36:49 - 36:52
    but since Desert Storm critics of the
  • 36:52 - 36:55
    f-22 program claim that the f-15 Eagle
  • 36:55 - 36:57
    destined to be replaced by the Raptor
  • 36:57 - 37:00
    already has the attributes necessary to
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    remain the world's pre-eminent air
  • 37:01 - 37:04
    superiority fighter well into the new
  • 37:04 - 37:06
    millennium
  • 37:11 - 37:16
    it is a view dismissed by the US efforts
  • 37:16 - 37:21
    if you look at the f-15 the f-18 and
  • 37:21 - 37:24
    compare it with existing fighters that
  • 37:24 - 37:28
    are sold around the world today you'll
  • 37:28 - 37:30
    find that today we're almost at Perry if
  • 37:30 - 37:33
    we ever run up against an enemy that has
  • 37:33 - 37:36
    the ability in terms of the aircrew to
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    use those enemy fighters we will have a
  • 37:39 - 37:43
    tough time with the current generation
  • 37:44 - 37:46
    the f-15 is a great aircraft and in
  • 37:46 - 37:48
    air-to-air it is outstanding however
  • 37:48 - 37:50
    with the production of new fighters that
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    are being produced today and also some
  • 37:53 - 37:55
    service to air threats there are
  • 37:55 - 37:57
    situations in the f-15 that would make
  • 37:57 - 37:59
    me nervous
  • 38:03 - 38:08
    in March 2003 supporters of the f-15 got
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    the opportunity to see whether or not
  • 38:10 - 38:12
    the eagle was still the best fighter in
  • 38:12 - 38:21
    the sky five f-15s would go head-to-head
  • 38:21 - 38:25
    with a single Raptor
  • 38:26 - 38:28
    although no missiles would be used
  • 38:28 - 38:30
    during the exercise the sorties would
  • 38:30 - 38:33
    closely resemble actual combat no
  • 38:33 - 38:36
    quarter would be given by either side
  • 38:36 - 38:39
    this was a kill-or-be-killed
  • 38:39 - 38:42
    exercise there were five of us Ares in
  • 38:42 - 38:45
    and me and my biggest concern was
  • 38:45 - 38:48
    running out of weapons too soon
  • 38:48 - 38:51
    all five f-15s are flown by experienced
  • 38:51 - 38:56
    f-22 pilots one by one the rapt brings
  • 38:56 - 39:00
    them down I could never see them I never
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    knew that they were there and I died you
  • 39:03 - 39:05
    got stuck
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    roll up I could hear him on the radio
  • 39:08 - 39:11
    calling his simulated missile shots Fox
  • 39:11 - 39:15
    tube and knowing that this was getting
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    really unnerving because I could also
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    tell his range was was closing rapidly
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    on me I don't think anybody ever saw me
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    the entire time
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    that while we were on the air space
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    bandit bandit
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    could not find him no matter what I did
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    and the next time was when he flew
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    directly over the top of my hair from my
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    soaring vision
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    I know firsthand from flying the Raptor
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    against other aircraft and flying other
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    aircraft against the Raptor that it's
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    like clubbing baby seals it's so easy
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    the first indication you have that the
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    net pay 22 is out in your area of
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    responsibility is when you are in your
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    parachute heading down towards earth and
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    your your jet is falling a little bit
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    faster than you are
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    in combat testing with f-15s the fa 22
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    Raptor has emphatically proven its
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    doubters wrong
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    there been times when the rapture has
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    gone up to vs. 8 against f15 and it ends
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    up being boring for the adversaries
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    because no matter what they do they die
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    having flown the f-15 and now having
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    flown the Raptor and seeing combat I
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    would not want to be on the receiving
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    end of what the fa 23 was capable we
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    will take on anything any combination of
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    the latest the latest aircraft that we
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    can throw it ourselves and we usually
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    win today 27 fa 22 Raptors have been
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    delivered to the US air force and are in
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    limited operation at Edwards Nellis and
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    Tyndall Air Force bases many more will
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    follow
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    the air force has agreed to a final
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    production run of almost 300 aircraft I
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    think 300 FA 20s will tip the scales of
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    any conflict in our favor I think that
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    any country who sees 300 FA 22s flying
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    towards it has got to get a little
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    nervous
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    Lockheed expects that a full production
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    rate of 60 aircraft per year will have
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    been achieved by the end of 2004 and
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    with components and parts coming from
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    four to six congressional states the fa
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    22 is truly a national effort costing a
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    massive 93 million dollars each the
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    Raptor is certainly the world's most
  • 41:48 - 41:51
    expensive fighter aircraft but for many
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    it is money well spent
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    yeah this is something special this was
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    not like an f15 on steroids or an f-16
  • 41:58 - 42:00
    on steroids this is the real thing with
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    a leap of technology that's orders of
  • 42:03 - 42:04
    magnitude better than what we have there
  • 42:04 - 42:09
    the interesting thing about the f-22
  • 42:09 - 42:12
    though is it is a fixed volume with an
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    infinitely increasing ability in terms
  • 42:15 - 42:17
    of its computer capabilities if you
  • 42:17 - 42:19
    think about the airplane has fixed holes
  • 42:19 - 42:21
    in the sides of the fuselage where
  • 42:21 - 42:24
    computers sit today in the future there
  • 42:24 - 42:26
    will be more computer capacity that
  • 42:26 - 42:28
    requires less power going in that same
  • 42:28 - 42:31
    physical hole so the fa20 to over the
  • 42:31 - 42:33
    course of life will become a more and
  • 42:33 - 42:35
    more flexible and warm more potent
  • 42:35 - 42:40
    machine as computer capacity increases
  • 42:41 - 42:45
    America's fa20 to Raptor was created out
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    of the Cold War fear that Russian made
  • 42:47 - 42:52
    fighters would sweep aside the f-15
  • 42:53 - 42:56
    but the world has changed since the
  • 42:56 - 42:59
    frigid days of the Cold War
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    the Soviet Union no longer exists and
  • 43:04 - 43:06
    the f-15 has more than earned the fear
  • 43:06 - 43:09
    and respected commands as the current
  • 43:09 - 43:13
    frontline fighter for the US Air Force
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    but the Raptor Lockheed's fa20 - looks
  • 43:19 - 43:22
    all set to carry US air force doctrine
  • 43:22 - 43:28
    well into the 21st century I'd be
  • 43:28 - 43:31
    terrified to to go into the arena with
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    something like that
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    I really would I've been on the
  • 43:35 - 43:37
    receiving end of it in testing and
  • 43:37 - 43:39
    mentally translated myself to what if
  • 43:39 - 43:42
    this was combat and it is a unnerving na
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    a disquieting feeling to fly in the same
  • 43:46 - 43:47
    airspace with more these airlines I
  • 43:47 - 43:50
    would say that it's not fair to our
  • 43:50 - 43:52
    enemies or even our own technology to
  • 43:52 - 43:54
    fight against the Raptor but the goal of
  • 43:54 - 43:55
    war isn't fair that we don't go into
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    combat because we want a fair fight
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    we want to win as fast as possible with
  • 44:00 - 44:02
    as little loss of life as possible and
  • 44:02 - 44:04
    the Raptor allows that to do that for
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    generations to come
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    in today's changing world there are few
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    certainties but the rule of the Raptor
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    America's air dominance fighter over the
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    skies is one of them
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