F-22 "Raptor"
Why The F-22 is more secretive than F-35 what made it's maiden flight 10 years after the F-22?
Eurasian times asks why the USA would not sell F-22 Raptors to Israel, but sold F-35 to them? The answer is that the F-22 Raptor is more advanced and deadly than F-35, even the serial number of the aircraft is smaller. F-35 made its maiden flight in 2006, almost 10 years after F-22, so why F-22 cannot sell to Israel? The F-35 is a multinational project, but the F-22 is a national project of Lockheed-Martin aircraft corporation and the fact is that there is a very small number of the vital data has been given about the F-22.
And the horrifying thing is that the F-22 project began in the 1990s. The F-22 made its maiden flight in 1997, and there are no details of the operations of those aircraft. Except they were used in the War of Syria, but the role is not clear. Maybe F-22 is mainly meant for attacking against radar stations than in full-scale combat missions. There is reported that USAF has 187 operational F-22 fighters.
On the Wikipedia page of that plane is mentioned many types of systems. But the thing is that the details of them are kept secret or not mention for some other reasons. The small internal bomb bay limits the firepower for that aircraft, and that's why it was not suitable in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the stealth core wound makes them suitable for an attack against radar stations.
So there must be some upgrades for that aircraft but the thing, what makes it interesting is the silence around it. When the first images of this "hit package" have been introduced to the press with its competitor Northrop F-23 "Black Widow", what lost the competition. F-22 was planned to be the successor for the F-117 "Nighthawks". That stealth strike aircraft made their maiden flight during the "Have Blue" program in the 1970s.
One F-117 attack plane shot down over Serbia in 1999 and that is the only reported loss of the stealth attack plane. So that means that stealth aircraft was not a disappointment even one of them shot down. The concept introduced in the 1970s turned old. And that means its stealth structure has hacked a long time ago.
So there is "missing numbers" in aircraft between F-22 and F-35, and that thing means that there is a work done in the Groom Lake and Palmdale areas. And that means there could be many new aircraft and things, which are not published are done in those places.
Sources:
F-22: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor
F-36: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II
F-117: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_Nighthawk
F-117 shot down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_F-117A_shootdown
Have Blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Have_Blue
Image: https://www.aviationtoday.com/2018/10/11/rejuvenating-raptor-roadmap-f-22-modernization/
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