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The 1st Lockheed Fighter In 40 Years Delivers The Goods |
Posted on Sunday, October 27 @ 14:08:55 GMT by just_dave
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Lockheed Martin Delivers First F/A-22 for Initial Operational Testing.
What some of you may not notice is that the a/c is making a turn impossible in almost any other fighter. It has thrust vectoring, similar and less capabable than the AV8B but is much faster and is very stealthy.
MARIETTA, Ga. - Lockheed Martin has officially delivered the first production F/A-22 Raptor air dominance fighter to the U.S. Air Force. The formal acceptance documents for the aircraft were signed at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company facility here on October 23.
The aircraft, the tenth Raptor built, is a Production Representative Test Vehicle (PRTV) and is the first aircraft to be purchased with production phase funds. It will be flown to the service’s flight test center at Edwards AFB, Calif., in the next few weeks. Raptor 10 will then be readied to successfully support the F/A-22 program’s Dedicated Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (DIOT&E) phase, scheduled to begin next year.
At Edwards, Raptor 10 will be assigned to the Air Force Operational Test & Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) detachment, serving alongside Raptors 07, 08, 09 and 11 to demonstrate the F/A-22 is suitable for operational use.
AFOTEC’s DIOT&E mission is to demonstrate the Raptor’s lethality, survivability and reliability in a simulated operational environment. DIOT&E is currently scheduled to begin during the summer of 2003.
The F/A-22 Raptor air dominance fighter is built by Lockheed Martin in partnership with Boeing, powered by Pratt and Whitney engines and made from parts and subsystems provided by approximately 1,200 subcontractors and suppliers in 46 states. Principal production activities take place at Lockheed Martin facilities in Marietta, Ga., Fort Worth, Texas, and Palmdale, Calif., as well as at Boeing’s plant in Seattle, Wash.
Final assembly and initial flight-testing of the Raptor occurs at the Marietta factory, headquarters for the F/A-22 program’s contractor team. The Raptor’s low-observable wing and vertical tail edges, low-observable antennas and radomes are built in Palmdale. Approximately 300 employees support the program.
The Raptor will replace the aging F-15 Eagle as America’s premier front-line fighter jet starting in 2005. The F/A-22’s transformational yet balanced design of stealth, supercruise speed and extreme agility, along with its advanced integrated avionics and overall user-friendliness, will allow the F/A-22 to help the Pentagon shorten future wars and save American and allied lives.
The aircraft, the tenth Raptor built, is a Production Representative Test Vehicle (PRTV) and is the first aircraft to be purchased with production phase funds. It will be flown to the service’s flight test center at Edwards AFB, Calif., in the next few weeks. Raptor 10 will then be readied to successfully support the F/A-22 program’s Dedicated Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (DIOT&E) phase, scheduled to begin next year.
At Edwards, Raptor 10 will be assigned to the Air Force Operational Test & Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) detachment, serving alongside Raptors 07, 08, 09 and 11 to demonstrate the F/A-22 is suitable for operational use.
AFOTEC’s DIOT&E mission is to demonstrate the Raptor’s lethality, survivability and reliability in a simulated operational environment. DIOT&E is currently scheduled to begin during the summer of 2003.
The F/A-22 Raptor air dominance fighter is built by Lockheed Martin in partnership with Boeing, powered by Pratt and Whitney engines and made from parts and subsystems provided by approximately 1,200 subcontractors and suppliers in 46 states. Principal production activities take place at Lockheed Martin facilities in Marietta, Ga., Fort Worth, Texas, and Palmdale, Calif., as well as at Boeing’s plant in Seattle, Wash.
Final assembly and initial flight-testing of the Raptor occurs at the Marietta factory, headquarters for the F/A-22 program’s contractor team. The Raptor’s low-observable wing and vertical tail edges, low-observable antennas and radomes are built in Palmdale. Approximately 300 employees support the program.
The Raptor will replace the aging F-15 Eagle as America’s premier front-line fighter jet starting in 2005. The F/A-22’s transformational yet balanced design of stealth, supercruise speed and extreme agility, along with its advanced integrated avionics and overall user-friendliness, will allow the F/A-22 to help the Pentagon shorten future wars and save American and allied lives.
The aircraft, the tenth Raptor built, is a Production Representative Test Vehicle (PRTV) and is the first aircraft to be purchased with production phase funds. It will be flown to the service’s flight test center at Edwards AFB, Calif., in the next few weeks. Raptor 10 will then be readied to successfully support the F/A-22 program’s Dedicated Initial Operational Test & Evaluation (DIOT&E) phase, scheduled to begin next year.
AFOTEC’s DIOT&E mission is to demonstrate the Raptor’s lethality, survivability and reliability in a simulated operational environment. DIOT&E is currently scheduled to begin during the summer of 2003.
The Raptor will replace the aging F-15 Eagle as America’s premier front-line fighter jet starting in 2005. The F/A-22’s transformational yet balanced design of stealth, supercruise speed and extreme agility, along with its advanced integrated avionics and overall user-friendliness, will allow the F/A-22 to help the Pentagon shorten future wars and save American and allied lives.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/articles/102502_2.html
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Re: Lockheed Raptor In Business Finally (Score: 1) by Necromancer on Sunday, October 27 @ 14:18:44 GMT (User Info | Send a Message) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.mcintosh/galaxy.jpg | what i find amazing is how long this plane has been in "testing" i mean it's been known about since the first air comabt game on playstation ffs and even then it was known to be a stealth plane :0 its badass though! |
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