Summary and Key Points: In 2009, Defense Secretary Robert Gates capped F-22 Raptor production at 187 aircraft — far below the ...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Air Force originally planned to build 381 F-22 Raptors. Only 187 were built. Approximately ...
Senate vote is victory for Obama, who supports Pentagon’s preference to transition to smaller jets. This photo released by the U.S. Navy shows an Air Force F-22 Raptor executing a supersonic flyby ...
Increasing threats from China and Russia are causing some lawmakers to look at restarting the F-22 fighter production line, a House Armed Services Committee staffer said Tuesday. The draft defense ...
If President Trump wanted to restart the F-22 production line to create the “F-22 Super,” it might be the best of many bad options in terms of the Air Force’s ongoing procurement and production crises ...
It is the absolute apex of air-to-air combat. It rules the skies like a bird of prey, from which it takes its name. It's one of the stealthiest fighter jets in the world. The Lockheed Martin F-22 ...
What You Need to Know: Israel has sought the F-22 Raptor, but a U.S. Congressional ban prohibits its export. Passed in the 1990s, the law blocks foreign sales of the F-22 due to its advanced stealth ...
Congressional delegation wants to save Cold War plane to protect state jobs and its own re-election chances. The state's congressional delegation -- two senators, five U.S. representatives -- have ...
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is a supersonic, twin-engine fifth-generation fighter equipped with advanced stealth technology and supercruise capability. Initially designed as an air superiority ...
New low-drag external fuel tanks developed by Lockheed Martin will give the company’s F-22 Raptor more range without compromising stealthiness or aerodynamic performance, Lockheed says. The company ...
At the Military Aviation Museum in the heart of tactical aviation country in Virginia Beach, Va., Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told a Virginia television station Sept. 8 that if he were ...