While the F-22 Raptor is lauded as the premier air superiority fighter, its legacy is tarnished by “fatal flaws,” chiefly its ...

Key Points and Summary – The Air Force plans to modernize early Block 20 F-22s—once training jets—adding open mission systems, improved stealth coatings, EW upgrades, and AIM-9X/AIM-120D/AIM-260 ...

Lockheed Martin has begun the “engineering analysis” around adding sixth-generation features to the company’s ...

Despite the newer F-35 Lightning II’s introduction, the F-22 remains dominant in terms of stealth and speed. The US Air Force’s dwindling fleet of F-22 Raptor fighters may be aging, but these ...

Lockheed Martin is reportedly trying to convince the Air Force up upgrade its F-22 Block 20 jets to be combat rated.

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Clipping the F-22’s wings not only weakens America, but incurs the massive financial and strategic costs involved with canceling the program now and trusting in a sixth-generation warplane later. Yet ...

The service in a new report to Congress says the Raptor is the “threshold platform” for CCA, though integration with F-16s, F-35As, F-15Es and F-15EXs is an emerging consideration. Uncrewed aircraft ...