Amazing this fighter was picked over the yf-23. A plane with a cost of about $350 million that cannot drop bombs is insane. American political corruption at its finest!
@PremiumWater YF-23 looks cool maybe it will get green lit in the future? the f-22 is an air superiority fighter meaning its not created to drop bombs, it can be fit with AGMs if need be though. beautiful aircraft
It's just a pity that the Raptor costs $350 million a copy. The Air Force can't afford more than 190 of them. They really needed the original number of 750 to replace the entire F-15 fleet.
@ThamMalaysia Lastly, why is the -23 so superior anyway? Because it looks more exotic? Did it appear in your video games? Because thrust vectoring is 'too new' for you?
@ThamMalaysia There are always skeptics. The $350 mil you cite is not the fly-away cost of the F-22, which is ~143 mil, substantially lower. And, you will find many pilots from around the world that will tell you the F-22 is the best of all fighters in the world today and most probably in the near future. I too am a YF-23 fan, but I'm glad the real experts made the selection and not people like us on YT.
@ThamMalaysia Yes "heatseekers" wich we made countermeasures for such as FLARES genius wich is stored in every aircraft of the USAF inventory and other branches!
The large elevators could be designed for the tangential torque induced by an aileron roll, and the elevators can[probably] assist in dissipation of that tangential momentum. Just like the MiG-25.
It would be a dream to flight that thing. I'm gonna be in the USAF. Can anyone tell me how much your average jet fighter gets paid and what subjects you need to know. BTW, im only in 8th grade
This guy is not an F-22 driver. His wings are not gold on his patch. All AF pilots have gold wings on their flight suit. He knows general knowledge about the raptor that anyone can read up about on the net.
@pvtdangles It's production has been halted short of 200 jets because of the cost and the fact we don't exactly have a urgent need for them at this time, being in 2 wars where air superiority is not a problem.
It has nothing to do with it's performance, it's performance is the thing which is astronomical.
@pvtdangles It was not, RAH heli and B2's were. Unmanned predatorB cost 15 time less and it does about the same job (bombing civilians and uprising terrorists ). Russian modern radars (active or passive ones) are meant to detect stealth planes and that's IMHO reason why USA have never attacked Russians.
Cuba was special case, cuz Russians were just responding to missiles deployed in Turkey by the USA, thats ofc not that well known fact (you wont ever see on BBC or Discovery). Screw aby haters...
how awesome it must be to be able to go around and say you fly this monster. i can imagine him going to a school on career day saying he flies the F-22. who cares about its damn price tag...ever hear the saying less is more this is the perfect example of that
im english and i must admit... the F-22 is the best AIR FIGHTER plane of all time (well it WAS as ur president barak obama stopped the project). but u guys have too remeber that the EF is not a fighter... but a multirole. and it is a fact that the only thing the f-22 is better at then the EF is AIR FIGHTING... but the EF kickes its arse at most other things. so in a dogfight its a good 75% chance that the F-22 will win. but then again we will never know for sure as they wont fight eachother.
im english and i must admit... the F-22 is the best AIR FIGHTER plane of all time (well it WAS as ur president barak obama stopped the project). but u guys have too remeber that the EF is not a fighter... but a multirole. and it is a fact that the only thing the f-22 is better at then the EF is AIR FIGHTING... but the EF kickes its arse at most other things. so in a dogfight its a good 75% chance that the F-22 will win. but then again we will never know for sure as they wont fight eachother.
I love this aircraft the best out there im tired of people saying the f-22 is crap and they think the eurofighter better pft this would own the eurofighter im sorry....what can beat a ninja?
agreed. US laws banned the raptor from being exported because the Raptors RCS is really small to be able to be exported it would have to have a RCS of0.011 ft² or the RCS of a JSF and the Raptor's is lower making it really stealthy
@TonyN737 there better not be anything out there that cane touch it because if anything touched it it would fall apart. the skin on the raptor is extremely fragile cant even withstand small bullets.
@TonyN737 Beauty means nothing in war. Russians radars are said that they can detect just any of these stealth planes at hundreds of km away (active and passive radars). If those planes were undetectable, there would be no Russia. the USA is biggest aggresor in the world and it eliminate just any threat it can. Russia is the only country that can face the USA (plus China, but USA economy depends on China, funny isnt it). If there was any God, he wouldnt imho bless country that kills most people.
@thomaspruzina well a few months ago there was a joint russian-american fighter mission (practice not real life) and we used f-22's and they used their stealth fighter so im not hating on you im just saying that we are one step closer to becoming friends with the ruskies:)
@evoldevildogs fail? tell that to the 244 pilots that were shot down at red flag by the f-22, and how only 2 f-22's were shot down in the entire duration of the event. 244/2...... not such a failure after all.
@TonyN737 except for EFT, upgraded F16... and pilot himself just said that it is useless in gun dogfight. "You open the doors, gun spins up..." and guess what? Target has already moved. And very few of missiles actually hit.
Invisible to radar? Imagine that'd screw with air traffic control for the strip.
TheLegendofPatrick 2 weeks ago
I got one complaint, needs better wheels. Cheers Air Force, thanks for your service.
Ron Paul 2012
vicospriteg 1 month ago
Amazing this fighter was picked over the yf-23. A plane with a cost of about $350 million that cannot drop bombs is insane. American political corruption at its finest!
PremiumWater 2 months ago
@PremiumWater YF-23 looks cool maybe it will get green lit in the future? the f-22 is an air superiority fighter meaning its not created to drop bombs, it can be fit with AGMs if need be though. beautiful aircraft
huntersdman6 1 week ago
i love America and our amazing military. the best jet ever created.
StagedComet 2 months ago
It's just a pity that the Raptor costs $350 million a copy. The Air Force can't afford more than 190 of them. They really needed the original number of 750 to replace the entire F-15 fleet.
cff121 3 months ago
@cff121
Luckily indeed, they didn't buy more of
these $350 million white elephants.
The Raptor has been labelled "Craptor" by
many knowledgeable quarters, and it is the
F-23 which should have been your current
air superiority fighter.
ThamMalaysia 2 months ago
@ThamMalaysia Lastly, why is the -23 so superior anyway? Because it looks more exotic? Did it appear in your video games? Because thrust vectoring is 'too new' for you?
SayokoHatsuya 2 months ago
@ThamMalaysia There are always skeptics. The $350 mil you cite is not the fly-away cost of the F-22, which is ~143 mil, substantially lower. And, you will find many pilots from around the world that will tell you the F-22 is the best of all fighters in the world today and most probably in the near future. I too am a YF-23 fan, but I'm glad the real experts made the selection and not people like us on YT.
asusucks 2 months ago
I want to start a religion that worships this plane as a god.
MynameisElliott 3 months ago
I am so greatful to live in a Country that has these types of aircraft, and the fine men and women keeping us safe. Thank you to all our military.
chevy050 3 months ago
More videos like this please!
SpyOpz94 3 months ago
(continued from previous post)
" Here's a hint for the USAF, if the plane is in a dogfight, it's not stealthy.
Everyone knows where it is, ever since this invention called radio was
added to airplanes. And if it is in a dogfight, it is as vulnerable as an
F-15 to the most deadly air-to-air missile, the heat seeker. "
I agree totally.
ThamMalaysia 3 months ago
@ThamMalaysia Yes "heatseekers" wich we made countermeasures for such as FLARES genius wich is stored in every aircraft of the USAF inventory and other branches!
ThePilot4life 3 months ago
@ThePilot4life
Flares don't work against most modern heatseekers,
which have built in ECCM.
Examples are Iris-T, Asraam, Mica IR, Aim-9X
Old hat, really.
ThamMalaysia 2 months ago
That blogger also went on to mention -
" They (the USAF) got their dogfighter, at $200M (now $350M)
a copy. What sense does it make to have a stealth dogfighter
that needs to shoot down enemy planes at a rate of at least 10 to 1 ?
ThamMalaysia 3 months ago
One doesn't have to be an expert in radar or stealth
technology.
Common sense - the parallelogram wings and highly canted
ruddervators (parallelogram themselves), its "duckbill" nose,
as well as the very smoothly, curvily-streamlined airframe,
instantly tell us that the YF-23 is far stealthier, and slipperier
at the same time, than the F-22.
As one blogger mentioned - " the Air Force is now stuck
with an $ 200M (now $ 350M) aerodynamic barn door " .
ThamMalaysia 3 months ago
I'm blinded by its majesty!!
Ulisestkd 8 months ago
The large elevators could be designed for the tangential torque induced by an aileron roll, and the elevators can[probably] assist in dissipation of that tangential momentum. Just like the MiG-25.
sudoLinux666 9 months ago
BUT!! could it take down a battle ship?
TheImpersinators 10 months ago
Incredible plane & super handsome pilot!
NorthCaliforniaGirl1 10 months ago
It would be a dream to flight that thing. I'm gonna be in the USAF. Can anyone tell me how much your average jet fighter gets paid and what subjects you need to know. BTW, im only in 8th grade
GodofSnipers1 11 months ago
@GodofSnipers1 you need to be super good at everything, especially maths
stevey2020 11 months ago
This guy is not an F-22 driver. His wings are not gold on his patch. All AF pilots have gold wings on their flight suit. He knows general knowledge about the raptor that anyone can read up about on the net.
Sleeperking05 1 year ago
@Sleeperking05 LOL of course he is not a F-22 driver, but he is a pilot of a car
TH7596 10 months ago
I'm so jealous of you americans and your Raptors!
MynameisElliott 1 year ago
He said staelthy. The drop tanks on the wings give the plane away on radar.
MrPocketWatch1 1 year ago
@MrPocketWatch1 That's why you can drop 'em..
youztuber5000 1 year ago
@MrPocketWatch1
That's why they don't carry them in combat, moron.
ResiusOnline 10 months ago
@MrPocketWatch1 stealthy
skadooshcovers 10 months ago
Of course I'm a pilot, can't you see my eyebrow?-
Bill Engval
God what I wouldn't do to fly one of them.
RADIOACTIVEBUNY 1 year ago
Like others have said before hand, they discontinued the project due to how expensive f-22's are
Thanatar2 1 year ago
"Its... almost unfair" HAHA!
alexflum 1 year ago
The AIM-9M is a bad missile by today standards. They should have armed it with MICA-IR instead right off the bat.
All the more than the F-22 won't have an HMS and won't be able to use its 90 deg off boresight capability.
The MICA-IR has about twice the range of the 9X block2, so the F-22 would have been able to launch it in BVR before it's detected.
Battery9876 1 year ago
Hasnt the f-22 been discontinued because of astronomical costs and much lower than claimed performance characteristics ?
no wonder lockheed-martin employs pilots to "sell" the plane to the public.
pvtdangles 1 year ago
@pvtdangles No, it was just too expensive. In fact, it had better maneuverability than what was originally thought. Just too expensive, that's all.
futuref22pilot 1 year ago
@pvtdangles It's production has been halted short of 200 jets because of the cost and the fact we don't exactly have a urgent need for them at this time, being in 2 wars where air superiority is not a problem.
It has nothing to do with it's performance, it's performance is the thing which is astronomical.
OlderG0ds 1 year ago
@pvtdangles It was not, RAH heli and B2's were. Unmanned predatorB cost 15 time less and it does about the same job (bombing civilians and uprising terrorists ). Russian modern radars (active or passive ones) are meant to detect stealth planes and that's IMHO reason why USA have never attacked Russians.
Cuba was special case, cuz Russians were just responding to missiles deployed in Turkey by the USA, thats ofc not that well known fact (you wont ever see on BBC or Discovery). Screw aby haters...
thomaspruzina 1 year ago
it is indeed the best Fighter Jet out there...By the way i have a personal question for you Capt. Michael Trujillo....are you Mexican?
Gusty911 1 year ago
why they have these they dont use em just waste of money they havent proboley been used
wwefan774977 1 year ago
I translated everything he said into english: "I am a god and i am way cooler than you will ever be"
BigBoss482 1 year ago
how awesome it must be to be able to go around and say you fly this monster. i can imagine him going to a school on career day saying he flies the F-22. who cares about its damn price tag...ever hear the saying less is more this is the perfect example of that
BRIANROX1 1 year ago
@BRIANROX1 Saying you a SEAL or in DEVGRU is much more B.A, but this is definitely still awesome.
BXAssasinatorXS 1 year ago
Euro fighter would make mince meat out of this fat belly plane
grumm70 1 year ago
im english and i must admit... the F-22 is the best AIR FIGHTER plane of all time (well it WAS as ur president barak obama stopped the project). but u guys have too remeber that the EF is not a fighter... but a multirole. and it is a fact that the only thing the f-22 is better at then the EF is AIR FIGHTING... but the EF kickes its arse at most other things. so in a dogfight its a good 75% chance that the F-22 will win. but then again we will never know for sure as they wont fight eachother.
abckade123 2 years ago
When you say EF, do you mean the super hornet??
Snarekid19 2 years ago
He means EuroFighter Typhoon.
Something that shouldn't even be compared to the F-22.
OlderG0ds 1 year ago
im english and i must admit... the F-22 is the best AIR FIGHTER plane of all time (well it WAS as ur president barak obama stopped the project). but u guys have too remeber that the EF is not a fighter... but a multirole. and it is a fact that the only thing the f-22 is better at then the EF is AIR FIGHTING... but the EF kickes its arse at most other things. so in a dogfight its a good 75% chance that the F-22 will win. but then again we will never know for sure as they wont fight eachother.
abckade123 2 years ago
i have a lot of admiration for pilots. great profession
diviengi 2 years ago 3
I love this aircraft the best out there im tired of people saying the f-22 is crap and they think the eurofighter better pft this would own the eurofighter im sorry....what can beat a ninja?
maheru999 2 years ago 8
agreed. US laws banned the raptor from being exported because the Raptors RCS is really small to be able to be exported it would have to have a RCS of0.011 ft² or the RCS of a JSF and the Raptor's is lower making it really stealthy
BRIANROX1 2 years ago
@maheru999 its like a rogue in world of warcraft noone can see haha.
jgtheman84 1 year ago
@maheru999 a samurai owns a ninja looooool
WolveZGuY 1 year ago
I think I met this guy at the Langley Airshow
tommybship 2 years ago
Sajak is a pretty cool guy to know.
F22RaptorFF 2 years ago 4
Jello .... :)
ptz7902 3 years ago
Beautiful plane, nothing out there can even touch it. God bless America!
TonyN737 3 years ago 12
@TonyN737
Euro fighter would make mince meat out of this fat belly plane
grumm70 1 year ago
@grumm70 no
beroth1 1 year ago
@TonyN737 there better not be anything out there that cane touch it because if anything touched it it would fall apart. the skin on the raptor is extremely fragile cant even withstand small bullets.
jgtheman84 1 year ago
@TonyN737 Beauty means nothing in war. Russians radars are said that they can detect just any of these stealth planes at hundreds of km away (active and passive radars). If those planes were undetectable, there would be no Russia. the USA is biggest aggresor in the world and it eliminate just any threat it can. Russia is the only country that can face the USA (plus China, but USA economy depends on China, funny isnt it). If there was any God, he wouldnt imho bless country that kills most people.
thomaspruzina 1 year ago
@thomaspruzina well a few months ago there was a joint russian-american fighter mission (practice not real life) and we used f-22's and they used their stealth fighter so im not hating on you im just saying that we are one step closer to becoming friends with the ruskies:)
shalexAP 1 year ago
@TonyN737 your right nothing can touch it ..because if you live a fingerprint it cost about 4 million to wipe it off
and for every hour you fly it , it has around 3 in maintenance
and now a toast to the worlds most expensive fail in history
evoldevildogs 2 months ago
@evoldevildogs fail? tell that to the 244 pilots that were shot down at red flag by the f-22, and how only 2 f-22's were shot down in the entire duration of the event. 244/2...... not such a failure after all.
TheAngrySwampMan 1 month ago
@TonyN737 except for EFT, upgraded F16... and pilot himself just said that it is useless in gun dogfight. "You open the doors, gun spins up..." and guess what? Target has already moved. And very few of missiles actually hit.
Picard578 1 month ago
Outstanding. Thank you Capt. Michael Trujillo, and thank you AFBuetube for posting.
AviationFavorites 3 years ago 14