Raptor!

[Denduke]

FIRST FA/22 FIGHTERS DELIVERED TO LANGLEY
Wow What a Machine!
The First F/A-22 Delivering to Langley AFB:

In-flight Photos of the F/A-22 as the first Aircraft Delivery was being made to Langley AFB in Va. . Langley is to be first Operational AFB for the F/A-22. It is a very Beautiful AFB, located in a picturesque location, as you can see in these photos, near Norfolk and Hampton , Va.
The Aircraft flying along with the F/A-22 in the last of these photos is the F-15, which will be replaced by the F/A-22 which is several times better than the F-15.
In Actual In-flight (simulated) Combat Operations against the F-15, two F/A-22's were able to operate without detection while it went Head to Head against (8) F-15's. The F/A-22's scored Missile Hits (Kills) against all the F-15 Aircraft and the F/A-22's were never Detected by either the F-15's or Ground Based Radar.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lewis said: 'The Raptor Operated Against All Adversaries with Virtual Impunity; Ground Based Systems Couldn't Engage and NO Adversary Aircraft Survived'!!!
F/A-22-- America 's Most Advanced Fighter Aircraft for the 21st Century!!!!

They're a titanium and carbon fiber dagger. They're so advanced that if their on-board IFF
locator is switched off even our own satellites can lose track of them.

They're the first military aircraft ever built that is equipped with a 'black-out button'.
What that means is this ...
The best conditioned fighter pilots are capable of maintaining consciousness up to in the vicinity
of 15+ G. The Raptor is capable of making 22+ G. turns. If some day an adversary builds a missile
that is capable of catching up to one of these airplanes and a Raptor pilot sees that a strike is
imminent, he hits the 'b.o.b..' and the airplane makes a virtual U-turn, leaving the missile to pass
right on by.
They know that in the process he'll temporarily lose consciousness, so the Raptor then automatically
comes back to straight and level flight until he wakes back up.

However they cost 'bout 260M and one's already crashed out Vegas way...They've been around for awhile too...

[MudHog]

"controlled" black out just doesn't sound right.

Looks like a bad mofo though. Wonder if one will ever come land at the old navy base by my house to see one. I see F-14 and F-16 pretty frequently. The little Tiger II training jets are here all the time. Alot of jets stop here to refuel on a long flight.

[Seymore]

Is that the jet that is to be the joint strike fighter. Supposed to be the end all do all for all branches of the military. The Navy and Marine version are to have VTOL capabilities if I remember right.

[SHAG]

Is that the jet that is to be the joint strike fighter. Supposed to be the end all do all for all branches of the military. The Navy and Marine version are to have VTOL capabilities if I remember right.

I think that is the F-35

[crow]

I hear they are developing a new fighter specially for fighting in the middle east. It's called the F-U!

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[Hole Hunter]

That is a BA machine!

[tombstone]

22+ G turns

[cwink]

Man that is cool looking.. With 22+ Gs I think I will just observe it from a distance..

[4dawgma]

22+ G turns

i'd probably $#!+ my pants............twice

[MudHog]

22+ G turns

i'd probably $#!+ my pants............twice

probably more than that as you would be unconscious. may lose body control and it would just start coming out. That would be a crappy situation.

[Duck Nawteek]

i'd probably $#!+ my pants............twice

and then when you wake up from that 22+ g turn you probaly gonna puke too. I hope they put an air freshner in there!!!!!!!!!!

[4dawgma]

That would be a crappy situation.

[Blackduck]

22+ G turns

i'd probably $#!+ my pants............twice

You would find your colon lying in a bloody puddle on the floor of the jet and while you try and swallow you stomach.

[chevy01234]

22+ G turns

i'd probably $#!+ my pants............twice

You would find your colon lying in a bloody puddle on the floor of the jet and while you try and swallow you stomach.

Beautiful description!

[tombstone]

22+ G turns

i'd probably $#!+ my pants............twice

You would find your colon lying in a bloody puddle on the floor of the jet and while you try and swallow you stomach.