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Welcome to the era of the F-22 Raptor -- the world's premier 5TH generation fighter.

The fast, agile, and stealthy F-22 began to take over the air dominance role first with Air Combat Command. Once testing and evaluations were successfully completed on the F-22 Raptor, it made its debut into the Air Force arsenal in 2005 as a replacement for the F-15 Eagle. The F-22's operational utility was tested and evaluated at Air Combat Command's 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
■The Block 10 Initial Operational Capability configuration, to be fielded this year, will be multirole, with the option of four AMRAAMs being replaced by GBU-32 JDAMs. This provides an analogous deep-strike capability to the F-117A, but is more survivable.
■ The Block 20 configuration is the baseline for the Global Strike Task Force (GSTF) fleet, and will include JSF common radar modules, a dedicated high-speed radar processor, and COTS technology CIP processors. The GBU-39/40 Small Diameter Bomb is introduced in the Block 20 aircraft by 2007, together with high resolution SAR radar modes, improved radar ECCM, two way voice and data MIDS/Link-16 capability, improved crew station software, and improved electronic countermeasures.
■The Block 30 configuration, planned for 2008-2011, extends the growth seen in the Block 20. Side-looking radar arrays provide a significant ISR capability in the aircraft along with enhancements to provide full Wild Weasel air defense suppression and time-critical target engagement capabilities. A Satcom terminal will provide continuous network connectivity during deep-strike profiles.
■The post-2011 Block 40 aircraft is intended to be the definitive Global Strike configuration, with incremental enhancements to Block 30 additions providing full sensor networking, range enhancements, integrated ISR capabilities, and a Helmet Mounted Display similar to the JSF.
■Longer term planning for a Block 50 envisages an Electronic Attack variant, replacing the lost EF-111A Raven. A stealthy stores pod for JDAM and SDB is under development to enable carriage on external pylons. As a strike aircraft the F-22A will have similar internal payloads to the JSF, but will be vastly more survivable due to better stealth.

By any measure, the development of the F-22A was revolutionary - in the technology employed and from a stealth design point standpoint - and this produced a combat aircraft that has no equal.

Being able to carry weapons internally was essential to its stealth capability, and efficient supercruise. Given the role away from dedicated air superiority, rather than incur the costs of resizing the compact main internal bays of the F-22A, sized initially around four early AIM-120A AMRAAMs, the US Air Force embarked on the 'Small Smart Bomb' program centered on the idea of carrying a payload of multiple 250 lbs. class bombs. Today's 385 lbs. GBU-39/B and GBU-40/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDB) were sized around the F-22A weapon bay. For the intended role of busting an opponent's airfields, mobile missile batteries, and command posts, the mix of either two GBU-32 1,000 lbs. JDAMs or eight GBU-39/40 SDBs is an excellent fit. With all-aspect stealth and penetrating supersonic at 50,000-65,000 ft. AGL, the F-22A remains virtually unstoppable by surface-to-air missiles or fighters. It is likely that operational F-22As will be used far more frequently to break down an opponent's air defenses than in the classical air superiority role, despite the aircraft retaining the full air superiority capabilities envisaged for the ATF.

The 1990s saw the production configuration of the F-22A refined, with a new fuselage shape, revised larger span wing planform, smaller vertical tails positioned aft, relocated cockpit, and production configuration avionics architected.

Stealth shaping for the F-22A design was unique as it used edge-aligned inlets and thrust-vectoring nozzles, by virtue of edge length capable of defeating radars with greater wavelengths than any other stealthy fighter inlet and nozzle designs in existence. Built thus for all-aspect relatively wideband stealth, this is a distinct optimization for deep-penetration and air combat, and the most capable stealth design other than the specialized F-117A and B-2A.

The raw aerodynamic performance of the F-22A was without precedent. In military (dry) thrust setting the F-22A could cover the whole afterburning performance envelope of the F-15 - or advanced Sukhois, both still the highest performing energy fighters widely deployed. The F-22A was rated for 9G at combat weights.

With 20,650 lbs. of internal fuel, the F-22A internally carried 88 per cent of the fuel in a CFT-equipped F-15E, with no drag penalty, yet with four 592 USG drop tanks, a total fuel load of 36,515 lbs. could be carried, 6 per cent more than the internal fuel of the larger F-111.
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