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  • It is true that the F22 after 1.5 hour flight you need to renovate 30 hours to renew and stealth paint that frames a break? In Europe, circulate such rumors do not know how it really is. Sorry for mistakes but I explained googkle because I am 16 years old and I'm Polish English well yet unknown :(

  • awsome

  • what is the speed of the high alpha pass?

  • it can hover in mid-air OR go 2200 or more. its top speed is classified

  • f-22 should use to against alien~~~~

  • Did anyone else catch the quick rudder movement at 5:10? You have to pay real close attention to catch it. This is my 30 time watching this and I just noticed it!

  • favorite part for me is at 6:40...it it starts off like the super hornet tail stand but instead of climbing dozer slows the aircraft on a dime and goes right into an aoa like pass. sweeet

  • I agree

  • Shit Thats bad ass

  • yall play to much damn ace combat... the f22a is a perfectly fine plane it is not too fast its not a sitting duck... if it had a HUGE disadvantage... the US would not use it...

    in a dogfight it has little to do with which type of aircraft you are using, pilot skill and experience is most important... and i know most of us have not piloted any of these jets

  • it goes 2200 one of the fastest planes out there

  • I said take the stealth away from th f-22 and the Su-47 will fly circles aroun it. It is way more manuverable and can fly faster than a Raptor. And for the G forces, Moga can handle 10.5 but only for a few seconds without G-lock. With the stealth the F-22 is the best and most expensive plane in the world.

  • Both are very good planes regardless of which would win. Even if the typhoon is better at close range the f 22 is still more usefull in a real war stituation because of its stealth.

  • Yes i saw somthing that said the F 22 usally wins at long range and the Typhoon usally wins at close range.

  • which would win a F22, Su 47 or a Eurofighter Typhoon?. I don't know that much about planes, however i think the F22 has a higher top speed of over 2.0 mach and the F22 has a better subsonic turn rate. The Typhoon has a better supersonic turn rate and is cheaper. Both accelerate at around the same speed and both can acheive super cruise. And i know nothing about that Su 47 thing.

  • belbo is pretty much exactly on.. if the planes start at like 100 NM, then the F22 no doubt... if a dogfight though, it'd be pretty close, but my bet would definitely be on the F22... haha

  • If it weren't for the stealth the F-22 is a sittin duck. Man the typhoon and the any of the Su series could fly circles around the F-22. The F-22 may be fast but that hurts it at close range. It would take a UAV to turn very tight at 10+ G's its impossible for a human to take those g forces.

  • Of course its a crap plane, since your people dont have it, dont worry about it, just be good over there and youll be fine! :)

  • i read somewhere that the raptor made its first operational interception of a russian tu-95 bear?? if someone can respond and tell me anymore that would be awsome, btw i love all of you comments except the guy that said the raptor is crap, fuckin 3rd world people haha

  • AMEN to that

  • Basically, the russians wanted knew of the f-15 groundings and knew that Raptors were going to fill the gap during the f-15 retrofits in alaska. So the russians sent their bears to get an upclose and perhaps try to shoot some of their own vintage radar signals at it to see what kind of radar feedbacks they can get since our raptors have stealth.

  • i believe your retarded, this is the best airplane in the U.s Air Force by far

  • とても綺麗な機体。

    映像ではなく実際に見られる日がこれば良いなぁ(^^

  • serious question, who would come out on top in a dog fight, the f22 or the eurofighter typhoon. Any experts out there. discuss.

  • I'm no expert vine139 but IMO the EF would win. Both are considered to have higher sustained/instantaneous turn-rates than any other fighters, so both should have exceptional abilities in a turning fight and there are a lot of factors to take into consideration. The the decisive factor though is that the EF has a helmet mounted cueing system system which the F-22 currently lacks altogether; it gives the EF a huge advantage.

  • The Rhino drivers down at Oceana actually have the new JHMCS helmets. They look badass and futuristic all at once. Good chance that the USAF won't be far behind in employing them. I'll put the vid up soon.

  • SemperApollo, there is no plans to integrate JHMCS on the F-22 AFAIK, in fact right now there is no integration of the AIM-9X either. That said against fighters it's fought in exercises so far there have been very few WVR engagements; which is how it should be.

  • I guess that makes sense due to the Raptor's role as air superiority and not a knifefighter. Some of the VA ANG Viper pilots said they hate training with Raptors since they get killed before they even pick them up on radar. Of course now the VA ANG is flying Raptors...if you can't beat em, join em!

  • Watch youtube and this link watch?v=vIvgBbXKL5E and you will see how much the F22 suck - its all info from US congress, not from Europe - the F22 is a flying Enron - stop getting your info from movies like Transformers

  • you're from europe. no one cares what you say

  • and you also hide yourself from radar for sometime!

  • b738me, didn't you mean show up on radar for some time ?

  • nicely put!

  • Since this whole mess began with this so called Su-37 doing "helicopter", just type "Su-37 presentation video" which clearly shows the difference between KnAAPO Su-37 and IAIA Su-30MK. Nicely shows nozzle movements & maneuver animations. The F22 TVC is similar to Su-37 (Pitch vectoring). Not advance like the MKI or OVT. Yet the F22 does maneuvers Su-37 havent done (Double-Pedal, Back-flip + 180', Helicopter(ish) maneuvers) Therefore F22 is no push over when it comes to AirShow antics.

  • Excellent point. The US experimented with 3D thrust vectoring in the F-16 MATV. The "Double Pedal" maneuver's yaw is controlled with the rudders (and whatever other surfaces the DFCS wants to throw in). The rudders on the production Raptors are actually more powerful than predicted in the prototyping stage.

  • Like I said before, the f-22's helicopter is MUCH slower than the su-30's, and the su-37 has a much higher angle of atack seen in its cobra maneuver. It can sustain 120+ degrees while the f-22 can sustain a mere 90 degrees.

  • Actually, the SU-27 would pass through 90 on its way to 120 degrees (two seat version was too nose-heavy to go past 90). For the -27 (not sure if its the same in the -35), the angle of attack limiters had to be turned off, or the stick yanked past a saftey detent in order to do the Cobra. The F-22 on the other hand is always under the watchful eye of the DFCS.

  • The F-22 can easily go past 90 degrees AoA. It did it at Atlantic City.

  • Alpha and nose position are related but not the same. Dozer did get the nose beyond 90 when doing his "pinwheels" behind the crowd, and the nose did go to roughly 90 degrees nose high in the hover, but the alpha wasn't past 90 degrees. Watch where the whole plane is going (velocity vector) versus where the nose is to tell.

  • Anyway...........this has become pointless. I am not going post in this section anymore......time to call it quits :D :D :D

  • Hey, thats what the comment sections are for. Look at some of the 2006 F-22 videos by airshowfansh and you'll see the Raptor doing...well it looks like a Kulbit but with even more precision. I haven't seen any Su-3x helicopter videos. In fact if anyone wants to post some, I'd appreciate it.

  • search for the su-30mki, there's one video where it performs several helicopters

  • Actually there are several especially from MAKS2003/2005. No question about the Su30MKI doing the helicopter though it doesnt look graceful/stable as MiG29OVT The whole point is F22 achieves a degree of YAW movement without the advance TVC of the above 2 A/Cs. OVT has 3D TVC MKI has asymmetric 2D TVC & nozzles canted inwards 30' F22 has simpler 2D SYMMETRIC TVC -/+ 20' like the older Su37 & Su37 has canards But F22 can do more in the air than the Su37 (ex. Double-pedal[yaw -/+180])

  • If u see the cobras of the f-22 and the su-37, there is a significant difference. The f-22 can sustain 90 degrees while the su-37 can sustain 120. Plus the su-27's cobra is similar to cobra of the f-22 considering that the plane is much older.

  • looks like that didn't happen

  • To Mr. SemperApollo: My sincere apologies for taking this so way off-topic. But when someone says the Su37 can do the Helicopter, well just couldnt keep my mouth shut. Oh & to others, why not checkout "sukhoi dot org" go to the Video & Military aviation galleries. Which plane is now doing the Helicopter? And type "flankers dot co dot uk". A guy called Ken Duffey has a wonderful reference on flankers. Plus pls do point me to any video where Su37 does helicopter :D :D

  • Its quite weird people still judge maneuverability by a few airshows tumbles be it the Raptor/flanker/or whatever. Even dogfights happen at much higher altitudes & at high-speed, high-G' environments. Airshow low-speed handling does NOT equal maneuverability. F22 & Typhoon were designed for sustained supersonic, hi-G' maneuvering. Su-35BM, will be able to do similar moves (Hi-speed, Hi-G). I guess if the Su37 was so capable the Russians must be crazy building another flanker for RusAF right?

  • Why wont Indians purchase the Su-37? Chinese? Russians? Why are the Chinese making J-11B/S? Why are the Russians building a brand new flanker called the Su-35BM? Even the Su-35BM is not specifically made to counter the Raptor! Russia's answer to the F-22 is the PAK-FA! PAK-FA, a plane with SuperCruise, Supermaneurability Stealth etc, etc! No why would they do that when they have the mighty Su-37? :o :o :o

  • So this Non-existent, helicopter non-performing mighty Su37 if its was so great & will kick-ass in the future why havent anyone bought it? Why are the Russians building the Su-35BM? Pls dont confuse the Su35BM with the older Su35 you saw in the mid 90s. Su35BM is brand new flanker. Su-35BM is considered to be the ultimate incarnation of the Flanker! Other than the external appearance, it has almost nothing in common with other flankers you have seen before. Technology this is very different

  • By the time the mig-29ovt is out for export, it will be outdated

  • Huh? Tell that to the Indians. MiG-29OVT has been appearing at airshows for sometime now! The MiG-35 (Super MiG-29 + MiG-29OVT) made it appearance at the Aero-India 2007. It is the leading candidate for IAFs MMRCA completion. And according to the Russians the plane is ready to go. It is defined as the ultimate incarnation of the MiG-29. It has some very advance technologies. Its beautiful plane!

  • I agree that the mig-29ovt is a superior plane rivaling sukhoi and lockeed martin. However, the mig-35 was confirmed not to have tvc.

  • Yes! MiG-35 that flew in Aero-India 2007 didnt have TVC. But, the TVC in the MiG29OVT is available for MiG-35 upon CUSTOMER REQUEST! It is designed to accommodate even better TVC. OVT is essentially a demo plane showing the new 3D TVC tech. MiG-35 is the REAL plane that will be bought buy airforces. Its the leading candidate for the MMRCA. If the IAF wants TVC they can have it. According to the Russians the MiG35 that flew at Aero-India 2007 is pretty much the production variant

  • "the TVC in the MiG29OVT is available for MiG-35 upon CUSTOMER REQUEST!"

    I'm willing to bet no one will want the TVC option !

    Believe it or not the Typhoon has 3d/2d TVC as an option, it's 3d TVC can even be added to existing engines without additional control units because they are integrated. The question is though will anyone want the TVC option ? up to now it's a definite no, even Russia themselves have no operational fighters using TVC !

  • I stand corrected

    :)

  • Unlike youtube here are some aviation specific sites (or should I say keywords to sites) Google: pilot strizhi (this is in russian) aviapedia patricks aviation Check whether Su37 performs "Helicopter"! Or was it Su-30MK & MiG-29OVT? About China (Su30MKK, Su27SK, J11/J11A/J11B) Google: chinese military aviation China-Defense forum sino defence About India (Su30MKI) Google: bharat-rakshak So Russia/China/India bothered about Su-37? At aviapedia there are nice stuff about Su35BM & MiG35
  • It's a matter of time. Once the Russians/Chinese/Indians develop a counter-stealth technology for the f-22, the su-37 will win with its better maeunverability. Have you ever seen the f-22 do 2 kulbits in a row?

  • Actually, last year it did ;)

  • Oh really, is there a video for that? Once the f-22 can do the helicopter maneuver, my mind changes!

  • *Sigh* Su37? All I can say is 'the what? Su37 is no more. Times have changed. The new Sukhoi super-flanker is the Su-35BM. Still a year or 2 from us seeing it at AirShows. Until then mantel of Sukhoi King goes to Su-30MKI/MKM. I saw the Su37 with my own eyes back in 96. Su37 does little or no yaw maneuvering. It has 2D symmetric vectoring like the F-22. Yet the F-22 can perform the Double-Pedal, Helicopter & a back-flip flowed by 180' yaw maneuver [continued..]

  • Correction: Su-35BM will fly end of this year. Has some very impressive specifications

  • For your info. china is trying to get the license to build su-37 in their country. The su-37 is not done yet. The su-37's thrust vectoring is several degrees more than the f-22 thus more meanuverable.

  • Really? I have followed the chinese military developments for the past 10 yrs & I must say china has moved to its own flanker "J-11B". J11B is an indigernized, highly modified Su27SK. Has little in common with the original Su-27SK (Other than the basic Air-frame). It powered by their own engine WS-10A. They have tested 3D TVC nozzles (albeit separately) There are NO Su37 orders from the PLAAF! However they are looking into Su-27KUB (Su-33UB) for carrier related stuff. But still no orders!

  • you could search a little better.

    Sukhoi has proposed to sell its latest plane to china.

    "Moscow has said it would sell its latest, most technologically advanced fighter plane to the Chinese government -- the Su-37 -- as part of Russia's continuing effort to forge economic, political, and especially military ties with Beijing."

  • Oh that 'worldnetdaily' article back in early 2000? I gave you the specific up-to date Chinese military sites: chinese military aviaion, Chinese Defence Today, chinese defense dot com. There is also China Military Online and many more. There plenty of official PRC defense magazines. (But you dont get those online). So which division in the PLAAF do you get Su37? Have they ever even signed a deal for Su37? There were rumours around 2000 that they MAY buy Su-37! But this is 2007!

  • Correction: not the su-33UB, it's the su-30MKK

  • You said china was trying to get the Su-37 licence built! Which is incorrect. 76 Su30MKK & 24 Su30MK2 were bought out-right by the PRC not licence built. PRC is LOOKING INTO the Su-33KUB. Possiblity of using them in a modified formaer soviet varyag AirCraft Carrier. But nothing certain.

  • China NOW has it own J-11B! Every item built buy them. Their own engine, RADAR & avionics, weapons, heavy use of composites! The direct flanker purchases made by PRC for PLAAF & PLAN are: Su-27SK, Su-27UBK, Su-30MKK & Su-30MK2. They started license building 200 slightly modified Su-27SK called J11/J11A, but they stopped after 100 and moved to J-11B (In the future J-11S a 2 seater). PRC wants military/weapon independence. J-11B is NOT license build! There IS NO Su37 in PLAAF!

  • J-11B is crap. It is not match for the eurofighter, raptor, or any of the flankers.

  • Tell that to the chinese! Especially that 'crap' part. ;)

  • Well, its not match for the generation of planes today.

  • Huh? On which planet did the Su-37 do the helicopter? Certainly not when I saw it in 96 (With my own eyes! Not videos). Russian "Helicopter" is performed by Su-30MKI(India)/MKM(Malaysia) and much more radically by the MiG-29OVT. Su-30MKI/MKM are NOT the Su-37s! These are custom built planes incorporating various Russian & other technologies. The Flanker videos you see on youtube doing helicopter are Su-30MKs. Show me 1 video of a single seat flanker doing helicopter!

  • Oh and is there 1 video of the f-22 doing a helicopter maneuver? It's common sense, if the su-35 can do it, than the su-37 can definately do it

  • For a moment lets say the F22 cant do helicopter! NEITHER has the Su37! How many times must I shout that Su35BM or Su30MKI/MKM is NOT Su35/37 you saw in mid 90s. The Su37 had 2D SYMMETRIC TVC (like the F22) and canards. But it does little or no yaw moves. 180' spin? Double-pedal? Helicopter? None! Yet the F22 can (although Limited).Su-30MKI/MKM has 2D ASYMMETRIC TVC. Nozzles move independently hence the added agility. If its COMMON SENSE as you put it then add 2D ASYMMETRIC to F22 as well

  • Ok fine, the su-30mki is much more meanuvurable than the f-22.

    My whole point of posting these comments is to state that the raptor is no match for sukhoi.

  • No match for "Sukhoi"? Assume u mean Su-## flanker series please define "no match"! Is ur definition of no match based on Airshow moves? & I told u over & over again the Russians must be nuts making Su35BM, must be nuts making PAK-FA. ColdWar soviets must have been nuts making MiG 1.42. If they knew 100% that F22 was no match for Su-## why on earth would they waiste resources build these new type?

  • "no match" meaning that if there was a dogfight, the flankers would win. military aircraft are constantly becoming outdated with new technology being discovered. The us must be nuts trying to make the f-35, creating the f-16matv, the aurora, and the fb-22

  • F22 Replace F15, F35 Replaces F-16/F-18/AV-8/A-10, FB-22 (A bomber/striker/attacker NOT a fighter) Will Replace F-111/F-15E (Thats if the thing ever flies) F-16 MATV/F-15 ACTIVE/X-31/X2-9 etc, etc were test planes to test certain parameters. Many of which were incorporated into the F22. There will be less than 200 F22 but more 3000 F35. F-22 & F-35 are like F-15 & F-16. The Aurora? Unofficially thats a Mach 6+ spy plane. Not a fighter. Officially the answer would be 'THE WHAT?! :D

  • Soviets ATF/JSF equivalent was MFI/LFI! MFI was MiG 1.42 That was labeled by them "Raptor Killer". MFI was supposed to have max supercruise of Mach 1.65+ compared to the initial ATF requirement of Mach 1.58+ (but Now said to be Mach 1.7+). Was designed to carry 12 AAM internally compared to the 8 of the F22. Vympel RVV-AE missile had folding fins to accommodate this. Soviet Union Collapsed MFI was refined to the PAK-FA.

  • PAK-FA is Russias answer to the F22. It is NOT a flanker! I dont know how else to put this to you. Its a plane with supercruise, supermaneuverability, stealth etc. (like the F22). Only difference is Stealth. Russians & Americans differ how to achieve stealth. But they both agree on heavy RCS reduction. PAK-FA will have an internal weapons bay. 3D TVC. New generation advance avionics, including conformal skin arrays, etc, etc.

  • Why is there an Su35BM? PAK-FA will take time! It'll be expensive! Even when it comes to service they wont build 500+. Latest news suggests an engineering mockup might appear this year. So Russia needs an A/C to counter A/C like EF-Typhoon, Rafale, F-15I/K/T & oddly Flankers bought by other nations! Most advanced 'Flanker' is with the Indians & Malaysians (Su30MKI/MKM). Russia needs an A/C to counter those A/Cs. Su35BM will also be truly multirole! For F-22 it'll be the PAK-FA

  • the su-30mki/mkk can already counter most of those aircraft.

  • It is to have other features that the f-22 doesn't have.

  • The pak-fa, su35bm, and mig 1.42 are being developed to replace their older aircraft. The su-37 and the su-47 were testbeds for later aircraft, one of the reasons why they are not in service.

  • [..continued] Now, Su-30MKI/MKM & MiG-29OVT/35 can do yaw moves by the boat loads & quite effortlessly. Get plenty of videos. But the MiG-29OVT has 3D TVC. Su-30MKI/MKM has 2D asymmetric TVC + canards. All these are more advanced than F-22s TVC which is basic 2D (-/+20') Symmetric. Yet its no push over. And I wont even include X-planes like X-29, X-31, F-16 MATV, F-15 ACTIVE etc, etc. [continued..]

  • [..continued] Go to you-tube search & type jumpsweet. Should come across a video titled 'F-22 manouverability DEMONSTRATION...'

    J-Turn at 00.01+ & 01.26+

    Flip & 180' at 05.05+

    Double-Pedal at 07.19+

    Helicopter at 02.43+

    You talked of counter stealth? Well in that case why are Russians building their F-22 equivalent called PAK-FA? Why are Chinese building their J-XX? In the future India might be joint a partner of the PAK-FA. They also have their own design the MCA (strike/attak)

  • The helicopter meanuvers was much more simple compared to the su-37's which had several spins. The f-22 only accomplishes 1 spin (is it even one?) and continous into a nose dive.

  • I think SU-37 is no longer the best Jet in the world. Look at Mig-29 wit Thrust Vector Control (watch?v=PWLYTAYG-9U)

  • I'm saying this as a F-22A fan. Only thing is, I'm not ignorant about what the SU can do. Once you let ignorance into battlefield, your as good as dead.

  • SU is much better

  • How? I know it makes you feel better that you post things like this, but we both know that the F-22 is better in every aspect. Engine thrust, avionics, speed, supercruise, agility, weapons, stealth. Jump off a cliff. You come to this video you dont even watch it, you just comment bullshit like this. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

  • Not necessarily. If it were combat ready, the Su-37 would surpass the F-22 in agility, and weapons. Though the speed of the F-22 is slightly faster, that doesn't mean much in a knife fight. The only thing that the Raptor has that completely outleagues the Terminator is it's stealth capablility. Take away the Raptors invisibility and it's a pretty fair fight.

  • Aww, reminds me of my dad up there flying...Lovin the USAF :)

  • your both wrong they are 120 million each.;D

  • A B-52 pilot explained it to a civilian at an airshow and it think it makes sense here: "When you buy a computer, you make sure its something you can upgrade and use for a long time so you don't have to keep buying a new one. The Air Force treats its assets the same way. You can't buy a new bomber every 5 years, but you can build one that can be upgraded and last for a very long time."

  • So yes, the initial cost is expensive, but its a purchase you don't make every year. When was the last time you heard someone complain about development costs of the F-15, Mig-21 or KC-135? :)

  • you really think we made these fighter bombers to kill terrorists.......these are being made to fight future threats such as china

  • hahah the Typhoon is no where near as fast as the F-22

  • if it was a race between the eurofighter and the f-22 ... the eurofighter would win

  • 1) nothing can beat the F-22 in a dog fight (trust vectoring a big advantage), or otherwise

    2) no plane will ever get the opportunity of a dog fight, because of the F-22's stealth.

  • I hear peopke talk alot about china and how "many: of this and that they have. Iraq should proove to you fools that numbers mean nothing to quality and training. In that regards, the US armed forces are the most powerful in the world, bar none! Theyre training and equipment are the best. The average infantry soldier is better equiiped and better trained then 90% of chinese forces.

  • lol but that 10% is close to being bigger than our entire military.

    Good Video!

  • lol

  • Damn. This skills are awesome. Now i have no idea, which plane is the best with the complete packet: the F-22A, the Eurofighter Typhoon or the Mig-29 OVT.

  • typhoon (Much much more faster)

  • Where the Su would stall, the F-22 can continue. It can sustain its AOA at 60 degrees easily. While doing the summersault, its shape allows it to continue in the same direction - sometimes engines first - while the Su would stop and drop like a rock.

  • I am so sick and tired of people who know nothing about aircraft posting stuff like this. Okay, if the F-22 and Su-37 started a dogfight the F-22 would win. Why? Aerodynamics. The Su is very maneuverble, but its very un-AGILE. It doesnt have enough engine power to pull of post stall manuevers like the F-22. Su bleeds energy like anything. Watch is maneuver videos again - - its almost a a complete stop during them - - missile magnet.

  • Nothing can touch this jet. FACT. Nothing will be able too for a long time. We've taken out several mig 29's and SU's with just 1 raptor before they even knew where there. Look it up.

  • That's not a fact because a Raptor has never been in combat. They just became combat operational last year.

  • Dont underestimate the russian planes designed during the cold war for WW3. Russian planes were built to survive in nuclear warfare as the avionics were less advanced so they wouldnt burn up from the Nuke's EMP blast. So the point is the russians would be the only planes in the air

  • Not true. That's just propoganda. To say Russia specifically built planes with older technology in order to survive a nuclear war is goofy. No truth to it at all. Russian technology doesn't exist. It's modified Western technology 10 - 20 years old.

  • hate to break it to you but everything the military flies, drives or uses is protected against an EMP blast. It would be stupid not to. The enemy could simply hit us with an EMP and our military would be cooked.

  • How do you protect against an electromagnetic Wave travelling so fast with so much force caused by an Atomic bomb, with the waves able to travel through even thick physical matter, sry to break that open much more clear. The reason the enemy dont hit you with an EMP is because there isnt a missles or small weapon able to target enough EMP in a small area so its no threat unless an atomic bomb i used xD

  • I fell asleep twice watching these 10 mn. How can a compilation be so boring?

  • Thats a very good video of an amazing jet. I was there at that airshow and I am looking forward to this year's. About the performance of the F-22 versus MiGs or Sukhois, I'm pretty sure that the only warning an enemy fighter might get is an RWR tone when an AMRAAM goes active seconds before impact.

  • does an su or mic supercruise? and at those speeds can they out maneuver the raptor? I dont think so, the raptor was built from the ground up to supercruise and as such is the most maneuverable aircraft in the world at those speeds. Forget lowspeed that was left back in ww2 :)

  • I'm an F-16 Crew Chief stationed in Arizona... I was recently feployed to Tyndall AFB in FLorida and got to see many of these F-22's up close and talk to the people who work on them. There's still a lot of work to be done on these planes... The look cool and all, but they have their share of flaws.

  • its gotta be better than that great big terradactyl of an f-15 that I crew ;) Wish i could go to luke... im stuck up here in mountainhome.

  • its gotta be better than that great big terradactyl of an f-15 that I crew ;) Wish i could go to luke... im stuck up here in mountainhome.

  • He's right. I'm an F-15 crew chief at Langley which is where this video was filmed. The jet has bugs that are being worked out, but the jet is amazing once it gets in the air.

  • I think this jet looks alot like the F-35 Lightning II project, who wee here in Denmark are putting dollars in too replace our F-16 MLU in a years..? Nice plane by the way

  • no, the F-22 is more advanced than the F-22, The f-35 is meant more as an all around good fighter for the US to use and export, while the F-22 is soley American, and is the successor to the F-15. The F-22 is faster, more manuverable (It uses thrust vectoring) and is stealthier

  • i meant more advanced the the F-35, lol

  • kkinchev, im sorry but the f-22s performance far exceeds that of mig or SU. What you see in this vid doesnt even scrach the surface of the capability the 22 has.

  • Maneuverability looks like a childs joke compared even to MIG-29 (I am not even talking about Su-37 and such)

  • SU's and MiG's??? They don't even compare to the planes in the US arsenal. Even if they did, who would fly them? Ruskies?

  • someone's been eating their propaganda-os for breakfast. no offense, but do some research bro

  • I agree. MiG-29OVT (35), for instance, would probably fly circles around the F-22 in close range dogfighting, but the MiG would never close the distance needed to engage the Raptor in a dogfight, if it ever saw the Raptor at all.

  • most aircraft in the USAF inventory have flight restrictions placed on them anyway to preserve the airframe intregrity, Including the f-22. These acraft have to last 20 or 30 years now a days.

  • Cool! I was there and I have some video of the same flight. If I get a usb cable I'll try to upload some of my vids.

    I can't help but think that you were the guy filming beside me... On Saturday I was standing in the same place...

  • so dont base your opinion off of the airshows because from what I have seen, the US doesnt go all out at their airshows. They just give you a small taste with a high speed pass, a 9g turn or 2, the cubin 8, and a climb or 2.

  • And the next day after everyone saw the dutch pilot fly, they pushed their planes a little harder so they wouldnt loo k bad(but not that much harder). And the f-22 at edwards didnt fly as hard as the one in this video.

  • I agree with cktice, if your not a pilot then you really dont know what your talking about, for example ive been going to airshows all my life and you would notice that the US doesnt push their planes very hard. At the 2006 edwards airshow there was a dutch f-16 demo, and this guy pushed the plane harder then any other f-16 that i have seen at a US airshow.

  • Don't want to get in a furball against that pilot, or his machine!

  • Great video. Wish I had made this show. Went to several airshows this past season and DC was the only one the Raptor appeared at. The pilot at DC did not do as an impressive show as your video shows at Langley. Thanks for sharing.

  • first thing you need to keep in mind when thinking of the F-22A raptor is that it is built for combat, not for airshows like some other planes I know of....

  • the su-30/35/37 can be easily converted

  • Su-30? Off-course! India has a custermized Su-30MKI & Malaysia Su-30MKM from IAPO. But, not Su-37! China has Su-30MKK from KnAAPO. Has some internal-structure similarities with Su-35. But, no TVC, no helicopter etc, etc. Chinese actually said NO thanks to TVC even though they could have had it. Su-30MKK/MK2 in the PLAAF/PLAN are there as strikesr/attackers! PLAAF is standardizing with J-10 & J-11. Why would they do that if they thought they could get kick-ass non-existent Su-37?

  • but I want one for x-mas

  • pfff my little sister run faster then this plane

  • The best video of Raptor

  • I'm not one to brag about my countrys military hardware out of no where; I just get sick of foreigners not giving credit where it is most certainly due. They put it down since their country didn't make it; pathetic little morons. ;)

  • How about instead of complaining about how bad the USA is you go do some humanatarian work and make a difference, its so easy to bitch when you contribute jack shit and sit behind your computer whinging all day.

  • ^^LOL. Amen to that.

  • that thing is wicked! I could watch fighter jets all day. Can't wait for fleet week!

  • No one seems to know its real speed. Also its expensive, over 300 million for one fighter, as aposed to 2 for a brand new F-16. As far as I'm concerened, as a main staged fighter, imracticle, as for a great feet of aviation history and something to use for future fighters, exsamplery.

  • I find it hard to believe that an F-16 costs 2 million... They got shitty old commercial planes taht cost more then that

  • Sorry man, i ment 20. Lol, silly mistake. But thats still considerably cheaper than 300 million i would think.

    Cheers!

  • Don't know where you get your numbers from, but they're not 300 million. They were over 200 million a piece before production reached full capacity, but now they're in the 150 million range. Still rediculously expensive considering the F-117 is only around 60 million.

  • ungrateful brits!!!! without the US, your country would be speaking german today!

  • I'd shut up at that point. The United States did not alone save Britain. I'm tired of hearing that shit.

    Thanks to the US's lack of involvement earlier in the war, a lot of extra lives were lost.

  • long live nikolaki, you have predicted the glorious future

  • yea whatever dude....moron

  • Its a hunk of shit its what it is, i've done my reading, fuel guzzling non-maneuverable peice of shit, its even slow.

  • "Its a hunk of shit its what it is, i've done my reading, fuel guzzling non-maneuverable peice of shit, its even slow."

    1. Its the most feul efficent fighter jet around.

    2. most manuverable fighter jet ever.

    3. Mach 2.5 is slow?

    You all hate america because our tech. kicks ass, and your military is shit.

    Fuck you.

  • We dont need a military because nature will take care of the US. What am i talking about? Well its like this:

    The Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean (near Africa) is about to collapse. This would create a Mega Tsunami which would be 900 feet high and travel at 600mph. There is ABSOULTELY NOTHING the US can do about it. It will swamp all the main cities along the East coast and millions and millions of Americans are going to die!!!

    Its not terrorists but nature you have to worry about.

  • Oh please. This from a guy who concedes that the US physically lost the Vietnam war and possibly flunked World History. Now he's a geological expert?

    Spare us your psychic hotline forcasts and go read a book.

  • I am not being psychic, I found out all this info on the National Geographic Channel!!!! An American channel hahahahahaha

  • oooops sorry ment politically :)

  • nah, I bet the US governament has something better. or someone else.

    Something you americans have got to learn, if youve got it, you dont flaunt it!, if you flaunt it, you aint got it.

    One other thing is your arrogance, you think it "will dominate the skies", whos to say that other governaments havent done somthing similar or better in top secret.

    And Id love to see how many foreign countries have to chip in its development and are needed to make that thing fly.

  • F-35 Joint Strike Fighter

  • the f-22 is about 10 years old, i wonder what new jet the usa has

  • Just seeing the F-22 fly by screams "dominance" you can just see it.

    And yes, it can go mach 1.5+ without afterburners. :)

    Any foreigners here trying to boast about any other jet, just has an inferiority complex. The Raptor will own any aircraft flying today, and the foreseeable future.

  • Inferiority complex? Who got their gigantic ass kicked by a little jungle country (Vietnam)!!!!

  • uhh actually, militarily the US slaughtered its enemy in 'nam but lost the war politally

  • wtf iz this ?!?!??!??!? u cnt call myn nd my matez moviz crap wen u ave this f**kin s**t

  • What the fuck did you say? I can't even read that, it doesn't make fucking sense. Take a