#Russian Jets Over Alaska Upgrade To Modernise#

It entered service with the USAF in December 2005 to replace the F-15, with emphasis on agility, stealth and range.Milestones for Interceptions of Soviet Aircraft over Alaska during the Cold War Date Event 5 December 1961 Two F-102s on alert at Galena intercepted two Tu-16 Badgers off the northwestern coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea. The thrill of arriving in a new destination is the best tonic for jet lag.The F-22A Raptor is an advanced tactical fighter aircraft developed for the US Air Force (USAF). We are intercepting more Russian jets near Alaska than ever since cold war: US Air Force The Nation The Russian Aerospace Forces is known to occasionally send missile-carrying strategic bombers on patrols in neutral waters near Alaska, with the Pentagon maintaining a large garrison in the northernmost US-state.Sunrise over Alaska has the sun coming along the front left of the plane so.

F-22A Raptor developmentBy 1990 Lockheed Martin, teamed with Boeing and General Dynamics, had built and flown the demonstration prototype aircraft, designated YF-22. The last produced F-22 was delivered in 2012 and 183 F-22 aircraft are currently in service with the USAF.Lockheed Martin received a $7bn five-year contract to maintain the USAF fleet of F-22 Raptor stealth fighters, in December 2019. Developed at Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, the F-22A Raptor is a supersonic, dual-engine fighter jet, which has won the 2006 Robert J Collier Trophy from the American National Aeronautic Association (NAA).In April 2009, production of the F-22 fighter jet was officially terminated when Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that the Pentagon would end the Lockheed-run F-22 programme and increase the production of the F-35 joint strike fighter.

Russian Jets Over Alaska Upgrade To Modernise

Elmendorff AFB, Alaska, became the second in August 2007 and Holloman AFB, New Mexico the third in June 2008. F-22A Raptor deployment and basesThe first operational wing of F-22A Raptors was Langley AFB in Virginia with a fleet of 40 aircraft. In November 2008, $40m of funding for four additional raptors was approved by the Pentagon, increasing the total ordered jets to 187, with the buying scheduled in the second half of the fiscal year 2009.In May 2019, the USAFвЂ™s F-22 fleet received an upgrade to modernise the application development process. The F-22 Raptor achieved full operational capability in December 2007.A further 60 Raptors were ordered in July 2007, bringing the total ordered to 183, with production to 2011. The aircraftвЂ™s designation was changed again to F-22A when it achieved initial operating capability (IOC) in December 2005.The decision to proceed to low-rate initial production (LRIP) was authorised in August 2001 and Lockheed Martin delivered 49 aircraft under LRIP contracts.Initial operational test and evaluation began in April 2004 and was successfully completed in February 2005.

F-22 weaponsA variant of the M61A2 Vulcan cannon is installed internally above the right air intake. A video camera records data on the HUD for post-mission analysis. Three secondary displays show air and ground threats, stores management and air threat information.A BAE Systems head-up display (HUD) shows target status, weapon status, weapon envelopes and shoot cues. The Kaiser Electronics projection primary multifunction display provides a plan view of the air and ground tactical situation including threat identity, threat priority and tracking information.Two displays provide communication, navigation, identification and flight information.

The side bays can each be loaded with one Lockheed Martin / Raytheon AIM-9M or AIM-9X Sidewinder all-aspect short-range air-to-air missile.The GPS-guided, Boeing small diameter bomb (SDB) was integrated on the F/A-22 in February 2007. Raytheon AMRAAM air-to-air missile is an all-weather short- to medium-range radar-guided fire-and-forget missile, with a range of 50nm. LAU-142/A AVEL AMRAAM vertical ejection launcher which is a pneumatic-ejection system controlled by the stores management system. The main weapons bay can carry six AMRAAM AIM-120C missiles or two AMRAAM and two 1,000lb GBU-32 joint direct attack munition (JDAM).The bay is fitted with the EDO Corp. The Raptor has three internal weapon bays.

Navigation and communicationsThe TRW CNI communications, navigation and identification system includes an intra-flight datalink, joint tactical information distribution system (JTIDS) link and an identification friend or foe (IFF) system.Boeing is responsible for mission software and avionics integration. Countermeasures of F-22 RaptorThe aircraftвЂ™s electronic warfare system includes a radar warning receiver and a BAE Systems information & electronic warfare systems (IEWS) (formerly Lockheed Martin Sanders) missile launch detector. Deliveries of the AN/APG-77 began in May 2005. The radar uses an active electronically scanned antenna array of 2,000 transmitter / receive modules, which provides agility, low radar cross-section and wide bandwidth. RadarThe AN/APG-77 radar has been developed for the F-22 by the Electronic Sensors and Systems Division of Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Electronic Systems.