Latest F-22 Stories
Don’t Retire Oldest F-22 Raptors, Upgrade Them, Demands Congress
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 21, 2022
F-22 Raptor’s Future Upgrades Appear In Art Posted By Air Force General
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 27, 2022
F-22 Being Used To Test Next Generation Air Dominance ‘Fighter’ Tech
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 26, 2022
Air Force Wants To Retire 33 F-22s, Buy More F-15EXs In New Budget
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 1, 2022
F-22 Raptor Spotted Flying With Stealthy Underwing Pods
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 8, 2022
The F-117 Tested A Mirror-Like Skin Decades Before The F-22 Did
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 22, 2021
Incredible Images Of A Stripped-Down F-22 Raptor Being Rebuilt After A Belly Landing
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 21, 2021
F-22 Raptor Covered In Mirror-Like Coating Photographed Flying Out Of Nellis AFB
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 22, 2021
F-35s Nearly Collided With F-22s Right After Last Year’s Raptor Crash
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Oct 14, 2021
F-22 Export Briefing Shows What It Would Have Taken To Sell The Raptor Abroad
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 16, 2021
Watch This F-22 Raptor’s Tailhook Catch The Arresting Wire During An Emergency Landing
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 12, 2021
A Fifth Of The Air Force’s Combat-Coded F-22 Stealth Fighters Are Headed For Guam
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 16, 2021
Hawaii-Based F-22s Scrambled On FAA’s Request But Nobody Will Say Why (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 14, 2021
New Details Emerge About The Secretive Program That Aims To Replace The F-22
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 14, 2021
Yes, It’s True, The F-22 Isn’t In The Air Force Chief’s Future Fighter Plans
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 13, 2021
F-22 Stealth Fighter Ends Up Nose Down On The Runway At Eglin Air Force Base In Florida
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 15, 2021
Stealthy XQ-58 Drone Busts The Networking Logjam Between F-22 And F-35
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 15, 2020
This Shot Of An A-10, F-35, And F-22 Billowing Vapor In Formation Is Absolutely Insane
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Test Pilot Explains The YF-23 Black Widow’s Awesomely Innovative Flight Control System
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Check Out This Incredibly Rare Image Of An F-22 Pilot Wearing A Helmet Mounted Display
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Nov 27, 2020
This F-22 Raptor Wing Tank Storage Facility Looks Like A Science Fiction Movie Set
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 27, 2020
This Lecture By An F-22 Test Pilot On The Raptor’s Flight Control System Is Bonkers
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 11, 2020
Study On Restarting F-22 Production Has Finally Arrived, Here’s The Verdict
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
F-22 Now Has AIM-9X But Still No Helmet Mounted Display To Use With It
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Now the Head Of the USAF Is Jumping On the F-22 Production Re-Start Bandwagon
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 2, 2020
F-22 Raptors Could Become Aggressors Under Air Force’s Radical New Training Plan
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 23, 2020
F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Crashes During Training Flight In Florida (Updated)
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 15, 2020
Hawaii Air National Guard F-22s, KC-135, And C-17 Do The “Elephant Walk” In Honolulu
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 22, 2020
Watch Every F-22 Raptor Air Show Maneuver From Inside The Cockpit For The First Time
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 12, 2020
This Slow Motion Footage Of An F-22 Raptor Maneuvering Is Mesmerizing
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 15, 2020
This Is What A Northrop F-23A Would’ve Looked Like If It Had Beaten Lockheed’s F-22
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
The Only Man Who Flew Both The F-22 And The YF-23 On Why The YF-23 Lost
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
These Images Of An F-22 Raptor’s Crumbling Radar Absorbent Skin Are Fascinating
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Behold The Nellis Air Power Demonstration In All Its Flare Popping Glory
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 21, 2019
Air Force Wants Its XQ-58A Valkyrie Drone To Help F-22s And F-35s Talk To Each Other
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 12, 2019
You Have To See The Rest Of This Shot Of An F-22 Tearing Across A Stormy Chicago Skyline
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 22, 2019
There Are More Fighters On This Packed Ramp In Wisconsin Than In Some Entire Air Forces
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 19, 2019
These Exhilarating F-35 and F-22 Twilight Afterburner Passes Will Start Your Week Off Right
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 29, 2019
F-22s, F-35s Join Hundreds of US and South Korean Jets in Drill as Fears of War Rise
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
F-22s Team Up With Combat Rescue Personnel to Practice for Quick Deployments
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
The USAF Is Adding a Newish F-22 to its Fleet of Flight Test Raptors
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
F-22 Raptors Have Intercepted Russian Su-35s Near Alaska For the First Time
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
F-22 Raptors Deploy To Qatar For The First Time Ever Amid Iran Tensions
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 28, 2019
Air Force Admits F-22 Raptors Won’t Hit 80 Percent Mission Capable Target On Time
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 24, 2019
Raptor Nest: To Escape Hurricane Matthew, Dozens Of F-22s Migrate West From Langley AFB
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 27, 2019
Watch This Ultra Rare Cockpit Video Of An F-22 Raptor Blasting Through The Skies
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 16, 2019
We Finally Know How Many F-22s Were Left Behind At Tyndall AFB During Hurricane Michael
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 22, 2019
The USAF’s Plan To Move F-22 Training Could Make Langley Air Force Base Raptor Central
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 29, 2019
24 F-22 Raptors Do The “Elephant Walk” In Alaska To Tout Their Readiness To Fight (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 27, 2019
Lockheed Martin Deletes Claim That Its Rebranded F-21 Could Be A Path To Indian F-35s
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Feb 20, 2019
Retired General Says F-22 Production Was Killed So That A New Bomber Could Live
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 6, 2019
Take In These Gorgeous Photos Of A B-2 And F-22s Soaring Together Over Hawaii
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 17, 2019
The Last Of Tyndall’s F-22s Are Leaving The Base And May Never Come Back
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 2, 2018
F-22 Raptor Came To A Rest On Its Side After Making Emergency Landing In Alaska
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 11, 2018