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Lockheed Martin X-44 MANTA. Lockheed Martin FB-22. The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is an American twin-engine, all-weather, supersonic stealth fighter aircraft developed and produced for the United States Air Force (USAF). As a product of the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program, the aircraft was designed as an air superiority ...
Fighter aircraft; F-22 Raptor: United States stealth air superiority F-22A 187 F-35 Lightning II: United States stealth multirole F-35A: 1,372(Maximum number of aircraft planned for deployment) As of January 2024, 363 aircraft have been deployed, of which 129 are being used for conversion training.The remaining 1009 aircraft are on order.
406th Fighter Squadron. Strasbourg/Entzheim Airport. P-47. Inactivated on 10 November 1945 - Consolidated on 19 September 1985 with the 506th Air Refueling Squadron. 407th Fighter Squadron. Alexandria Army Air Base. P-51. Inactivated on 7 November 1945 - Redesignated 191st Fighter Squadron.
An F-16 Fighting Falcon (left), P-51D Mustang (bottom), F-86 Sabre (top), and F-22 Raptor (right) fly in a formation representing four generations of American fighters. Fighter aircraft (early on also pursuit aircraft) [a] are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to ...
1989–1990. First flight. 29 September 1990. Developed into. Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. The Lockheed/Boeing/General Dynamics YF-22 is an American single-seat, twin-engine, stealth fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The design team, with Lockheed as the prime contractor, was a finalist ...
According to Lockheed Martin in 2004, the only fifth-generation jet fighter then in operational service was their own F-22 Raptor. [2] [40] Lockheed Martin uses "fifth-generation fighter" to describe the F-22 and F-35 fighters, with the definition including "advanced stealth", "extreme performance", "information fusion" and "advanced sustainment".
The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) is a United States Air Force (USAF) sixth-generation air superiority initiative with a goal of fielding a "family of systems" that is to succeed the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. [1][2] A crewed fighter aircraft is the centerpiece program of NGAD and has been referred to as the Penetrating Counter-Air ...
Following the USA's decision not to allow the export of the F-22 Raptor, Japan began looking for a domestic solution to field a new fighter aircraft. From the mid-2000s Japan began funding various research programmes involved in fighter design culminating in the Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin experimental aircraft which took flight on 22 April 2016.