The Raptor release has come to an end.

Lockheed Martin will be releasing the latest F-22 Raptor, the fifth generation fighter, on Marietta on Tuesday from Lockheed Martin from the company's assembly shop. This will be the 195 th aircraft. Despite the crown of the best fighter in the world, the F-22 fell victim to the Pentagon and Congress, limiting the mass production of the aircraft.

Critics have long heard complaints about the high cost of the aircraft, which is approximately 140 million dollars, as well as allegations that Raptors, after the end of the Cold War, do not have a clear mission. F-22 was practically not used to combat international terrorism, and also did not work in Afghanistan and Iraq.

On the part of the Raptor defenders, on the contrary, it says that today in Russia and China they are developing stealth fighters of the F-22 class.

Lockheed Martin won the F-22 competition in April 1991. On Sunday early morning 7 September 1997, the first aircraft of this type flew. Piloted his test pilot Paul Metz. The company originally planned to build 1,4 thousand aircraft of this type, but the number of ordered aircraft decreased every year.

Prototypes YF-22 built at a plant in the city of Palmdale (California), but mass production was organized at a plant in Marietta.

Comments

[Vadivak]

On the part of the Raptor defenders, on the contrary, it says that today in Russia and China they are developing stealth fighters of the F-22 class.

Not developed but already developed and flies. Wait for the series

[urzul]

The fourth is on its way

[Vadivak]

I forgot who asked - in general, we will soon hear that Iran agrees to share a drone

[Grenader]

Good news.

[APASUS]

Quote: Vadivak

I forgot who asked - in general, we will soon hear that Iran agrees to share a drone

I asked. I would like to read more

[Vadivak]

With the details tight, merged just ready to share, the question is with whom


Iranian state TV reported that military experts "are completing the decryption of data from a captured US spy drone
“Before Iran took control of our drone, he (Obama) had opportunities - two choices. Actually, he had three of them. He chose the worst. He could try to return this UAV or destroy it. And he chose the worst of the three. He did absolutely nothing. Both Russians and Chinese will now receive our high-tech tool. This president is a problem, ”Perry said.

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton is most worried about the "Russian trace" in this whole story: "There are reports that the Russians sold a very sophisticated jamming and protection system to the Iranians. Now, our military says that the drone fell due to a malfunction. I definitely hope that this is true, because if the Russians provided Iran with such equipment, our risks are much more serious. Possession of such technology could allow the Iranians to shoot down missiles, aircraft, disable guidance systems, entire ranges of our modern weapons. Tehran can transfer the drone to Moscow and Beijing, giving specialists access to the latest American developments, to demand in exchange Iran’s active defense in the international arena against attacks by the West and the IAEA, as well as sanctions by the UN and individual countries in connection with the nuclear program.

[Anatoly]

Good news. A little panic in the camp of the enemy.

[snek]

When there will be a serial engine, all the necessary electronic filling and weapons. Then it’s possible to say that it’s developed, and so far prototypes fly. The Americans also flew prototypes for a long time, until the aircraft went into a series.

[urzul]

With the engine that it is already the 5 generation, the radar is also already in the air on the 3 machine, so I don’t understand where such skepticism comes from

[snek]

Well, I'm generally a skeptic. That's when the first batch of troops goes - this will be wonderful.

[urzul]

It goes, do not hesitate, in 2013 the first batch should arrive. While everything is going as planned

[snek]

Yes god. The main fear is that after Putin’s election, financing will begin to shrink until the next election.

[urzul]

Your fear is unfounded, do not believe everything that is written on the network

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

and not class F-22, but class "dry"

[Mujahiddin777]

Our 4 of their 195 pcs will tear !!!

[rysich]

Not only stop production, disarm and cut !!!

[snek]

UGU, now they’ll take off and run to saw.

[tronin.maxim]

The plane has so many minuses and complaints that its own state refused to buy it. It costs a lot but there is no sense.

[urzul]

The most expensive, the most advertised, the most problematic, and the most protected.
How would someone break an expensive toy

[Motherland]

Made in the USA

[Denis]

But the plane is successfully removed in Hollywood films

[tronin.maxim]

This is the only thing this plane can do.

[Vadivak]

Quote: Denis

But the plane is successfully removed in Hollywood films

Yes, like Bruce Willis himself shot him down in Strong Wreck-4, so Bruce as a weapon is cooler

[Gurza]

Bruce shot down the F-35 and with vertical take-off, I went to the cinema! =)

[Denis]

Against Bruce and C 400 will not save.

[Gurza]

New system: -Bruce C-500 "Die Hard"

[vadimus]

Is the printing press broken?

[m.metis2011]

vadimus, finally

[Desert Fox]

the paint is over

[kostya]

I don’t think that the Pindos will actively exploit the raptors already in service, because their maintenance is several times more expensive than the F-16, F-18. So an expensive but useless toy flew off all the same

[Tatars]

There will be no raptor will be F-35. The F-35 is a good mid-range fighter. It's just that we are not going to make a fighter of this type, OK Mig would have coped with this task, but that's why all the money gives OKB dry

[badabum]

When Miga has its own lobby in the government, money will flow

[Desert Fox]

rather, we will wait for pendoses to buy our dryers from us

[Max79]

Yes, I’m sure this aircraft was developed by our compatriots who work for Uncle Joe in the United States. Tell me then, and you need such an airplane for hell if it is a pity and expensive to use for its intended purpose ?!

[qwz_qwz]

you need such a plane for hell

For show-offs

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Despite the crown of the best fighter in the world, the F-22 was the victim of the Pentagon and Congress, which limited the serial production of the aircraft.

and the crown is not who dressed him ?!

[Desert Fox]

The flag is in their mouths, and a pendobrum on the neck.

According to the research of the pindostan itself, the problem of operating the F-22. It turned out that the "most advanced" fighter of the American army requires 30 hours of maintenance after each hour of flight, and the cost of an hour of flight operation is $ 44000. Nevertheless, they break down so often that, according to the Pindos themselves, 50% of the vehicles in service in the Air Force are not ready for use.

[badabum]

Pindos are now 150 years old to chew crackers and fly on stupas to pay off their debts ....

[Perry]

taking into account R&D, one such bandurin is worth at least 250 million. By the way, by weight its price is the same if there was as much gold. that is, it costs as much as 19 (such as its dry weight) tons of gold

[BAT]

As far as I know, our planes have always been better. Starting with MIG-19 and ending with MIG-29 and SU-34.

[Kyrgyz]

Now they’ll come up with something, 300 million

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

and why the opposition is silent about drinking dough? !!!
where is the indignant voice of the Novodvorskiy Germans, etc.? !!!

[merkawa]

The Yankees thought that we would rush to catch up with them as in the old days, but broke off a little

[Anatoly]

That's so inglorious and quickly ended life, this PR technology. In battle, they were afraid to use it, so as not to screw up the whole world if they knocked it down. Expensive and stupid!

[Varnaga]

So everyone understands that this is cardboard shit.

[Anatoly]

Look ka Varnaga, some kind of sneak from the fifth column, minus all comments. Nervous, Troll!

[Varnaga]

"Despite being crowned the best fighter in the world"
Who then gave such a crown to the Pindian rubbish? Zhurnolamery and shkolota's enthusiastic thinking?

[marmon]

Most likely the states are going to concentrate on the development of the 6th generation of their technology, which is why they already allow it and they clog it on f 22

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

why trifle, immediately 8 no 15 generation

[marmon]

In vain irony

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

yes god save me
only 5 they did not bring to mind

[marmon]

From where do you know what they brought and what not? According to the media? Just in technology, they are 30 years ahead of us and this is due to some, including Russian scientists. And we also need to think not about the experimental 5th generation, but also think about 6th.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Quote: xabaroff.ven

From where do you know what they brought and what not?

and how do you know what they are designing? and how do you know that the KB does not think about the 7th generation

[marmon]

Judging by the purchases of Highways and other nonsense, they probably even think about the 7th generation and DARPA doesn’t doubt that they have achieved certain successes in ramjet engines including laser and other technologies. And you have a clear overestimation of yourself and underestimation of the enemy

[xabaroff.ven]

It is dangerous to underestimate the enemy, and overestimate your capabilities. ("Bulava" - 50% of successful launches. The reason is the transfer of production from the Ural company specializing in the production of products for the Navy - Moscow, "amphibious" and we have what we have.

[Varnaga]

P-30 then what does it have to do with it? MIT, by the way, brilliantly coped with its task. Or do you think she should have flown right from the stand to the maximum range? Test launches just differ from combat training in that 100% of the result is not needed here, and is not achievable.

[Force 75]

http://mj12.ucoz.ru/publ/istrebitel_6_go_pokolenija/7-1-0-119

Here is the 6th generation

[443190]

I won’t be surprised if tomorrow the Americans will present a real flying saucer. With their perseverance and agility, this is likely.

[NovoSibirets]

And their Majesty the dollar is now called that? !! Perseverance and pragmatism?

[443190]

Only now the native state is stubbornly buying up this green dirty trick ...

[NovoSibirets]

Oh yeah! )) But this is a completely different story ...

[UAZ Patriot]

The T-50 has not yet had time to tear itself away from mother’s bosom and has already won the first victory! Hooray!

[443190]

And what is his victory?

[UAZ Patriot]

speed is higher ... flies further ... takes off faster is in 2 words. It is cheaper, is it in three, what is the use of pendosia to produce raptors? and!!!?

[443190]

But he is in service and can actually participate in hostilities. And our miracle of technology is just learning to fly. And about the cost, so they have one state of California that has a budget 3 times that of our entire country. And what's the point of producing hordes of such super cars if they don’t have a worthy opponent. And for those that they have and simpler enough aircraft.

[rysich]

Yes, at least in the fact that we have it, and its performance characteristics are superior in some respects to the American counterpart.

[443190]

Only by the time we finally have enough of these planes, the Americans are likely to come up with something newer. For example, we have never been able to make an analogue of their B-2. The Tu-160 as an answer to V-1B was not really completed ... The Su-24 as an answer to the FB-11 was not brought to mind .... The technological lag is affected in everything. It used to be ... and now even more so, we are in front of them like Indians before Columbus. Fortunately, the nuclear baton still remains. Otherwise, we would have long been divided into parts.

[Varnaga]

Yes exactly. They and the sraptor came up with a pretty good idea. Variable thrust vector, up and down, cool, almost like a SU-30. A wide range of weapons, a whole cannon, with such maneuverability it is needed more than ever, ok? 6 AIM-120, 2 AIM-9, well, and 2 kg JDAM, awesome punch potential, breakthrough technology and the triumph of technical thought! This is especially evident on the AIM-450, it has such a huge angle of capture at the homing head that the R-9 simply sucks, or the AIM-73, an amazing range of 120 km, not like the R-70 - 27 km, R-170 - 33km, R-228 - 77km. Cool, h160.
The triumph of technology has reached such a level that the Scraptor cannot fly in the rain, the coating shrouds and closes the wiring, this, you know, ensures the weatherproofness of the Pindo shit. Reliability is also amazing, according to statistics for one and a half hours in the air - one critical failure, and for an hour in the air - more than thirty hours of repair in the hangar.
Avionics is the most modern, but the trouble was made under conditions of furious progress in electronics and was outdated at the time of adoption. At the time of the start of development, the performance of one computing element was insufficient to solve the tasks, so the developers spread the load between several computers, while the software software has become much more complicated and its modernization is a very time-consuming process.
Well, poisoning pilots with poison gas in this flying gazenvagena is generally a classic.
Of course, having such breakthrough technologies, Pindos can safely proceed to the 6th generation aircraft, there is an opinion that this will finally cover their economy, hehe.

[Force 75]

This comrade knows everything; contact him; he served both raptors and the T-50. Sitting on the couch at the telecom and listening to Savdep's noodles about the triumph of their technologies

[443190]

I support. It seems that a herd of like him has settled here. They really do not represent the topic of conversation. Read the Internet and go ... Hooray-patriots. It is a pity that there are a lot of these now. That they would have to be urgently mobilized and sent to fight ... yes, at least to Georgia ... Then we certainly wouldn’t beat a couple of our planes ourselves there ... After all, we have everything, the most .... including ... edibles.

[443190]

We have many Kulibins ... And that pleases ... We have created and invented a lot ... But the introduction into the series is lame. Production 0. There is a good saying "the war plan will show".

[Force 75]

As for money, it’s no more expensive than feeding the Caucasus, I assure you

[Varnaga]

Well, what you crap on the topic, it is already clear, in essence, that is, to say, dear govnotrolli?

[mambito]

I can say that money ends with amers. They can’t spend money on toys that are constantly breaking.

[forkboy]

ours always look that the Pindos will release, and after 4 years they release the product a cut above

[mpanichkin]

In general, the F-35 class fighter is fucking for us. We have many good fighters. Such as Su-30, Su-29. Right now put on the stream T-50.