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F-22 Raptor

A fifth-generation air-superiority fighter built around stealth, supercruise, high-altitude performance, agility, and integrated sensors.

  • Air-superiority fighter
  • Real-world system
  • IOC December 2005
U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor in flight
U.S. Air Force photograph. Public-domain U.S. government image.

Overview

The F-22 was designed primarily to establish air superiority against advanced opponents while retaining precision-strike, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability.

Technical basis

Its performance comes from low-observable shaping and materials, internal weapons carriage, thrust-vectoring engines, sustained supersonic cruise without afterburner, active electronically scanned radar, sensor fusion, and secure datalinks.

Series appearances

  • The Strait of Fire — Chapter Ten
  • The Suwałki Gap — Chapter Fourteen

Further learning

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