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are F22's in service yet?

I dont know, but I saw one at the airshow last month here in Anchorage. The thing took off, immediately went straight vertical and accelerated into oblivion... pretty awesome stuff. And that thing is LOUD!!!! Shakes the ground even when it's a mile away flying over town somewhere. I want to buy one.

 
In early 2006, after an exercise involving just eight F-22s in Nevada in Nov. 2005, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Hecker, commander of the 27th Fighter Squadron (FS) at Langley AFB, Virginia, commented to Jane's Defence Weekly (Jan. 18, 2006), "We killed 33 [non-modernized] F-15Cs and didn't suffer a single loss. They didn't see us at all."



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Originally posted by: Hyperlite
In early 2006, after an exercise involving just eight F-22s in Nevada in Nov. 2005, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Hecker, commander of the 27th Fighter Squadron (FS) at Langley AFB, Virginia, commented to Jane's Defence Weekly (Jan. 18, 2006), "We killed 33 [non-modernized] F-15Cs and didn't suffer a single loss. They didn't see us at all."



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That's scary...considering the F-15 is basically a twin-engined radar...and it couldn't see the Raptors...wow. I hope Canada's F-18's never have to go up against them, or we'd get spanked.
 
Originally posted by: chowmein
all i can say is, it's on my flightline 😉
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That's not your flightline son, that's the taxpayers flightline. If you screw up just this much, you'll be flying cargo planes full of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong!
 
Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
I'd really want to see a simulation between Eurofighters and F-22s
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To see the Eurofighter get owned? Eurofighter is an awesome fighter, but the F-22 outclasses it in just about everything. I wouldn't even put the two same fighters on the same level of aircraft.
 
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Originally posted by: chowmein
all i can say is, it's on my flightline 😉
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That's not your flightline son, that's the taxpayers flightline. If you screw up just this much, you'll be flying cargo planes full of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong!
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Not a chance. He'll get downed for a week, maybe go before the CO, then get reinstated because he's one of the few hotshots that can fly it.

Provided he's a flyboy 😀

 
Last I heard there were two squadrons currently taking deliveries, one in Florida or Georgia or something to that effect, and another in Virginia, and the Virginia guys were flying in homeland defense roles around Washington DC.
 
Originally posted by: abracadabra1
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Originally posted by: chowmein
all i can say is, it's on my flightline 😉
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That's not your flightline son, that's the taxpayers flightline. If you screw up just this much, you'll be flying cargo planes full of rubber dogshit out of Hong Kong!
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Not a chance. He'll get downed for a week, maybe go before the CO, then get reinstated because he's one of the few hotshots that can fly it.

Provided he's a flyboy 😀
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According to his sig, he's an Airman First Class. Not sure if NCOs can fly or not, but I can't recall any literature or photographs I've seen that would indicate that they can.
 
Originally posted by: Aimster
F-15Cs were non-modernized?

What does that mean?
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They have an aux input for your iPod.

Wikipedia indicates that some F-15Cs have been retrofitted with the radar that is in the F-15E, so perhaps these ones were not?
 
all F22s (were) flown out of tyndall afb between panama city and mexico beach fl. i spent the weekend in mexico beach in may and we saw several come in for a landing over the beach. i spoke with a couple of the air force guys at dinner and they said that all F22 training is performed there.
 
F22's are deployed to active squadrons at about three or four airbases. All of the active squadrons are still in workups I think except for the units out of Langley


Aside from that, the fire control is what makes the F22 so mean. For instance an F22 can forward deploy to aquire targets and then fire weapons from other planes that have no visability of the targets at all.
 
Originally posted by: d3n
F22's are deployed to active squadrons at about three or four airbases. All of the active squadrons are still in workups I think except for the units out of Langley


Aside from that, the fire control is what makes the F22 so mean. For instance an F22 can forward deploy to aquire targets and then fire weapons from other planes that have no visability of the targets at all.
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Why didn't I think of that?
 
Originally posted by: BillGates
I'm going to see my first one in Oct at the Miramar Air Show in San Diego - can't wait!
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i'll be there too! We should have an ATOT meetup or something...
 
Originally posted by: ed21x
Originally posted by: BillGates
I'm going to see my first one in Oct at the Miramar Air Show in San Diego - can't wait!
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i'll be there too! We should have an ATOT meetup or something...
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What kind of tickets did you get? I scored front row box seats near the center of the box seat area for both the afternoon and night show.
 
Originally posted by: BillGates
Originally posted by: ed21x
Originally posted by: BillGates
I'm going to see my first one in Oct at the Miramar Air Show in San Diego - can't wait!
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i'll be there too! We should have an ATOT meetup or something...
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What kind of tickets did you get? I scored front row box seats near the center of the box seat area for both the afternoon and night show.
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Bill Gates!!!
Hi Buddy.

Why dont u buy an F22? You have the money 🙂
 
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