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F-22A Raptor took long road to initial operational capability
Dec 27, 2005 - With the F-22A's initial operational capability declaration Dec. 15 came the capstone of a process that began 76 months earlier, in August 1997, when a C-5 Galaxy landed at Edwards AFB and taxied down the expansive "Contractor's Row" with several crates and boxes in its cargo bay for what is now known as the F-22A Combined Test Force. [Read more...]
Raptor releases JDAM during first 'follow-on' evaluation mission
Sep 03, 2005 - Members of the 422nd Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis AFB flew the first F/A-22 Raptor Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation mission Aug. 29, releasing Joint Direct Attack Munitions on the Utah Test and Training Range. [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...]
F/A-22 Raptor records first supersonic aerial target intercept
Nov 08, 2002 - The F/A-22 Raptor air dominance fighter program completed another key flight test goal on Nov. 5, with the successful missile interception of an unmanned drone while both aircraft and target were flying faster than the speed of sound. [Read more...]
F-22 Raptor successfully conducted a test flight with external stores
Sep 12, 2002 - The F-22 Raptor has for the first time successfully conducted a test flight while carrying external stores under its wings. [Read more...]
F-22 4003 successfully fired an AIM-120 missile
Aug 28, 2002 - F-22 4003 became the first Raptor used to successfully fire a radar-guided AIM-120 missile while flying faster than the speed of sound. [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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