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F-22 Failure Investigation Results: ‘We Have No Clue’

After spending seven months in costly research, the Air Force scientific board investigating the F-22 life support system failure has turned in their conclusions. The findings: they have no idea about what’s going on. The USAF’s press release reads like a joke to American taxpayers. The investigation board, lead by retired General Gregory Martin—aviator and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The F-16 Gets Upgraded To Play Nice With Modern Fighters

It’s obvious the Air Force’s new F-35 needs all the help it can get. So Lockheed Martin has just unveiled an updated version of its F-16, the F-16V, which will make the proven fighter better interoperate with the F-35 and F-22. https://gizmodo.com/trillion-dollar-plane-grounded-once-again-5880858 Revealed at the Singapore Airshow yesterday, the F-16V obviously isn’t a complete redesign…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Is Lockheed Martin’s New Amazing Fighter

Last December, Lockheed Martin assembled the last F-22 Raptor ever. It’s the USAF’s one and only fifth generation fighter*. It has never seen combat. It spent part of its life grounded. Now they want to sell you a new one. The only problem is that, as amazing as it looks and as amazing its technologies…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Air Force Blames Pilot in Suspicious Stealth-Jet Crash

When an F-22 Raptor malfunctioned in mid-flight, leading to a crash that killed its pilot, the Air Force went into damage-control mode. Gen. Norton Schwartz, the chief of staff, insisted there was no way that the oxygen generator on his prized stealth jet – a system widely suspected of being dangerously flawed – caused the…

Tech News David Axe

This Is the Last F-22 Raptor Ever

AK 4195. That’s the tail number of the last F-22 Raptor ever, which you can see here fully assembled and about to move into the flight line to get ready for delivery. That assembly line is now closed. Done. Forever. I say forever because I doubt they will ever open it again. The Raptor was…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

$7.4 Billion of Your Tax Dollars Are Upgrading the Never-Used F-22

The F-22, America’s favorite multi-multi-multi-billion dollar gun with no trigger, is getting a new paint job! TIME’s Mark Thompson reports the fleet of unused warplanes will get one hell of an upgrade. Too bad we don’t need it at all. The Pentagon’s paying out $7.4 billion for “system upgrades to existing requirements, incorporate new requirements,…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Sad Odyssey of the F-22: America’s Big Broken Toy

The F-22 has been okayed to fly again, after being grounded, cleared, grounded, then cleared once more—all within a year. And yet, the Air Force hasn’t fixed the plane’s life threatening flaw. It doesn’t seem like it cares. https://jalopnik.com/grounded-stealth-fighter-fleet-ko-d-by-oxygen-woes-5799273 The F-22 Raptor program was birthed two decades ago, designed, according to its proud Air Force…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The F-22 Is Back, Baby!

That was quick! With zero explanation, The World’s Most Expensive Plane™ is back in the air, despite a persistent, possibly deadly oxygen deprivation problem. How long will the $24,000,000,000 fleet stay operational? Who knows! [AFP]

Tech News Sam Biddle

Surprise: $150 Million F-22 Fighters Are Shut Down Again

Last month, the Pentagon gave the OK to the nation’s fleet of extremely expensive F-22 jets, despite failing to fix the plane’s oxygen deprivation problems. They decided to just see how things went. They didn’t go well: it’s broken again. https://gizmodo.com/the-f-22-is-back-in-the-sky-and-still-kinda-broken-5841894 This would be comical if it weren’t so infuriating. Langley Air Force Base’s entire…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The F-22 Is Back in the Sky! And Still Kinda Broken!

Remember when the Pentagon let the F-35 start flying again, even though its underlying defects hadn’t been fixed? They just did literally the exact same thing with the F-22 Raptor. Hope you’re not worried about oxygen deprivation. https://gizmodo.com/the-f-35-is-cleared-to-fly-again-and-still-not-fixed-5832176 This past spring, the country’s entire $62 billion F-22 fleet was grounded after pilots reported symptoms of…

Tech News Sam Biddle

F-22 Jets Allowed to Fly Just to Escape Irene

Like its more expensive cousin, the F-35, America’s F-22 fighter fleet at Langley Air Force Base has been grounded due to malfunctioning parts. Surprise! Not at all. But they’re taking to the skies again!—just to avoid a hurricane. https://gizmodo.com/the-f-35-is-cleared-to-fly-again-and-still-not-fixed-5832176 That the Air Force will only give the thumbs up on the F-22 in order for…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Crashed F-22 Wreckage Found, No Sign of Pilot

An F-22 Raptor crashed in Alaska on November 16. The search an rescue crews think they found the wreckage yesterday, but there’s no sign of the pilot. According to the USAF’s Colonel Jack McMullen, he may have a chance at survival: They have survival gear. He’s Arctic trained to survive in that environment. He’s got…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Air Force to End the Need for Pilots In 6th Generation Fighters

The United States Air Force is now looking for a F-22 Raptor replacement. It must be in service by 2030 and, for the first time ever, they want to be able to deploy these combat fighters unmanned and remotely controlled. https://gizmodo.com/f-22-raptor-airframes-falling-apart-due-to-bad-glue-373205 While the USAF wants to use actual pilots too, they are clear that they…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

King of Fighters F-22 Gets Killed by Humble T-38 Training Plane

Stephen Trimble—master of all things flying—has found this video that apparently shows a T-38 training fighter shooting down the theoretically invincible F-22 Raptor in a combat training exercise—first kill documented on video ever. https://gizmodo.com/a-look-at-fifth-generation-fighter-planes-5162787 It’s not the first time it has happened, however: An EA-18G—a modified F/A-18 F Super Hornet Block II—”got lucky” and killed…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

A Look at Fifth Generation Fighter Planes

Lockheed Martin has made an awesome video—hosted by experimental test pilot Alan Norman—showing the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II combat airplanes, which include an exclusive view on the F-35 demon pilot helmet targeting system. https://gizmodo.com/f-35-helmet-display-system-to-scare-the-bejeezus-out-of-260482

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The F-22 Raptor May Be Replaced By…Sniper Blimps?

Originally designed to fight the Soviets in WWIII, the F-22 Raptor has never seen combat. And now, Barack Obama needs to decide whether to keep building them or kill the plane forever. Each F-22 costs $143 million, and at stake is a $9 billion proposal to build 60 more Raptors over the next three years.…

Tech News John Mahoney

F-22 Raptor Now Kills Faster, Higher

Now that jets, bombs and violence are back in the news, we turn our interest to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, the United States Air Force, which together have figured out how to make the F-22 Raptor supersonic warplane deliver bombs faster and higher than ever before. It does this by accurately computing an altitude and distance…

Gadgets Charlie White

F-22 Raptor Traps Pilot Inside

When you’re an elite United States Air Force pilot at the controls of an $134 million F-22A Raptor, what do you do if you get stuck inside the high-tech flyin’/fightin’ machine? What? The door won’t open?! That’s just what happened last month to a pilot with the 27th Fighter Squadron out of Langley Air Force…

Gadgets Charlie White

F-22 Failure Investigation Results: ‘We Have No Clue’

The F-16 Gets Upgraded To Play Nice With Modern Fighters

This Is Lockheed Martin’s New Amazing Fighter

Air Force Blames Pilot in Suspicious Stealth-Jet Crash

This Is the Last F-22 Raptor Ever

$7.4 Billion of Your Tax Dollars Are Upgrading the Never-Used F-22

The Sad Odyssey of the F-22: America’s Big Broken Toy

The F-22 Is Back, Baby!

Surprise: $150 Million F-22 Fighters Are Shut Down Again

The F-22 Is Back in the Sky! And Still Kinda Broken!

F-22 Jets Allowed to Fly Just to Escape Irene

Crashed F-22 Wreckage Found, No Sign of Pilot

Air Force to End the Need for Pilots In 6th Generation Fighters

King of Fighters F-22 Gets Killed by Humble T-38 Training Plane

A Look at Fifth Generation Fighter Planes

The F-22 Raptor May Be Replaced By…Sniper Blimps?

F-22 Raptor Now Kills Faster, Higher

F-22 Raptor Traps Pilot Inside

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