The Aviationist

(Finally) U.S. Air Force to add a new Helmet Mounted Cueing system to the Raptor stealth fighter

Although it is integrated in U.S. F-15C/D, F-16 Block 40 and 50 and F-18C/D/E/F, on the Eurofighter Typhoon and on several other modern planes (including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter – with some ...
The Aviationist

A dozen F-22 Raptors have arrived in Japan amid tensions in Northeast Asia over North Korea’s nuclear test

The U.S. Air Force has deployed 12 Alaska-based F-22 Raptor multirole jets to Yokota airbase, near Tokyo. Twelve F-22s belonging to the 525th Fighter Squadron from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, ...
The National Interest

F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Could Have Been ‘Shape Shifted’ Into a Bomber

What You Need to Know: The Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor, the U.S. Air Force’s premier stealth fighter, exceeds all near-peer airframes in capabilities like stealth, supercruise, and ...
The National Interest

NGAD: The F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter on 6th Generation ‘Steroids’?

NGAD will be heavily influenced by the mighty F-22 Raptor stealth fighter: The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor has been routinely described as the best air superiority fighter ever produced, while the ...
Yahoo

The stealth F-22 Raptor's days are numbered, and the Air Force is officially looking for designs for the fighter jet's next-gen replacement

The service said it published a solicitation to industry and will award a contract next year. "We will lose that edge if we don't move forward now," Frank Kendall, Air Force secretary, said. The US ...