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CTF celebrates Raptor's 1,000th sortie
Apr 24, 2013 - The F-22 Combined Test Force celebrated an impressive milestone April 19, when the oldest flying Raptor successfully completed its 1,000th sortie. [Read more...]
Air Force Association Responds to WP F-22 Article
Jul 14, 2009 - Below is the Air Force Association response to a recent Washington Post article that was highly critical of the F-22 program. [Read more...]
71st & 94th FS head to Combat Archer
Jul 12, 2008 - An integrated team of Raptor pilots from the 71st and 94th Fighter Squadrons and more than 130 maintainers left July 12 in support of Combat Archer at Tyndall AFB. [Read more...]
Raptor drops first small diameter bomb
Sep 26, 2007 - The F-22 Raptor Combined Test Force conducted the first airborne separation of a small diameter bomb from the internal weapons bay of an F-22 on September 5th. [Read more...]
Northrop Grumman successfully completes F-22 radar flight-test certification
Mar 26, 2007 - Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed radar flight-test certification for the fourth-generation variant of the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for the F-22 Raptor. [Read more...]
Robins AFB selected for software maintenance on F-22 Raptors
Dec 22, 2006 - The Air Logistics Center's at Robins Air Force base will be the repair station for most of the software on the software-intensive F-22 Raptor, which contains about 2 million lines of code. [Read more...]
Wings combine strengths to solve Raptor issue
Aug 10, 2006 - Four wings are combining efforts to analyze, develop and test a new advanced medium-range air-to-air missile data collection system for the first F-22A Raptor at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. [Read more...]
F/A-22 Raptor flight-test program successfully demonstrates intraflight datalink
Feb 13, 2003 - The F/A-22 Raptor flight-test program has for the first time successfully demonstrated between two Raptors the capabilities of the Intraflight Datalink (IFDL), a key component of the Raptor's avionics suite that is designed to enhance a pilot's situational awareness. [Read more...]
F/A-22 Raptor meets program's final 2002 flight-test goal
Nov 26, 2002 - The Lockheed Martin-led F/A-22 Raptor air dominance fighter program team successfully launched an unarmed, short-range, heat-seeking AIM-9M missile against an aerial target on Nov. 22, completing all four Pentagon-mandated flight-test goals for the year 2002. [Read more...]
First flight of Raptor 4005 armed with block 3.0 avionics
Jan 05, 2001 - The U.S. Air Force's F-22 program soared over another milestone today with the first flight of an F-22 Raptor equipped with combat-capable avionics as Boeing test pilot Randy Neville flew the successful first flight of Raptor 4005 from Lockheed Martin's facility in Marietta, Ga. [Read more...]
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