Monday, July 13, 2009

F-22 Raptor

F-22 Raptor is a joint-partnership product by Lockheed Martin and Boeing. It is introduced in the year of 2005 and is the most-advanced stealth air superiority fighter currently. The price tag for each raptor is USD137.5 million and was one of the option for Singapore's RSAF in response to the Malaysian purchase of 18 Russian Superagility Fighters, the Su-30MKM. The F22 is currently not for sale.

It is capable to fly up to the maximum speed of Mach 2.25 and the maximum g-force of 9.0g. The F-22 has also been designed to disguise its infrared emissions to make it harder to detect by infrared homing ("heat seeking") surface-to-air or air-to-air missiles.

To-date, there are 141 raptors were built and operated by USAF.

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1 comments:

Thomas Kallenbach said...

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Tom