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F-22 Raptor lands ahead of Freedom 250 celebration

U.S. Air Force aircraft maintenance personnel assigned to the U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team marshal an F-22 ...

Lockheed Martin delivered its last F-22 Raptor in 2012 — and the USAF is now spending $8 billion to keep the 187 airframes it has left combat ready

The answer lies in the stealth coating that consumes half of every maintenance hour.
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The F-22 Raptor's Gold-Tinted Canopy Is A Stealthy Secret Weapon

For years, nothing in the sky matched the Lockheed Martin F-22. Introduced in 2005, the Raptor was the first fifth-generation fighter to enter service, and its advanced capabilities quickly made it ...

A single software update to the F-22 Raptor’s engine is quietly keeping America’s first stealth fighter flying well into the 2040s

America’s most famous stealth fighter is getting an unusual kind of life extension. Not a new airframe. Not a brand-new ...

A single software update to the F-22’s engine is quietly keeping America’s stealth fighter combat-ready into the 2040s, and almost no one noticed

The F-22 engine is getting a secret software boost. Learn how data-driven updates are keeping the Raptor combat-ready into ...

Why The F-22 Raptor's Square Engine Nozzles Have Never Been Copied In 20 Years

In 2025, the second J-36 demonstrator was seen featuring what appears to be a return to the F-22's previously unique rectangular exhaust nozzles.