A 1st Fighter Wing's F-22 Raptor from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., pulls away and flies beside a KC-135 Stratotanker with the 756th Air Refueling Squadron, Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility, Md., while his wingman refuels off the east coast July 10, 2012.(Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock / U.S. Air Force).
Task & Purpose: An Air Force F-22 Raptor just fired off a record number of air-to-air missiles
It basically tells big Air Force that our unit is prepared to deploy”
The U.S. Air Force found out that the F-22 Raptor can fire far more air-to-air missiles than ever before. Teams from the 94th Fighter Squadron and 94th Fighter Generation Squadrons were able to load and fire a record breaking 28 missiles during a weapons test in September, far more than the standard arms loadout.
That’s a lot of explosives. In fact, it’s nearly a third more than the previous record of 22 air-to-air missiles fired from a F-22, set in 2014 by a team from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. This Raptor is loaded for bear and other planes.
Read more ....
WNU Editor: The U.S. Air Force still wants to retire the F-22 .... The F-22 prototype first flew 32 years ago. Now Congress and the Air Force are at odds over the stealth jet's future (Insider).
No comments:
Post a Comment