F-22 Supermanouverability

Montage of clips of the F-22 airshow demo including cobras, backflips, super-high-alpha flight, the Raptor hovering with its nose pointed straight up, some super-fast pitch-ups, and some "vapor" (sonic shock condensation cones and wingtip vortex contrails) at the very end. Sweet, sweet stuff.

As we know, the F-22 is pretty much invisible in the battlefield (in simulated wargames, F-22 pilots always kill everyone else before being detected), has the fastest cruise speed of any airplane currently flying (MACH 1.5-1.75 depending on whom you ask), is powerful enough to break the sound barrier while flying straight up in a vertical climb while fully loaded, and is extremely advanced in how it manages, shares, and integrates information and presents it to the pilot. This weekend, the USAF has allowed one more thing about the F-22 to be shown to the public: its maneuvering capabilities. This video is a montage of clips from the F-22's first full tactical airshow demo (performed in Langley this weekend by Major Paul Moga) plus a few other F-22 clips from YouTube. I don't think I need to tell you that no American fighter has ever enabled a pilot to do these kinds of aerobatics:

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• F-22
• Raptor
• stealth
• airshow
• fighter
• jet
• manouvers
• demo
• Lockheed
• F22
• Boeing
• backflip
• cobra
• alpha
• thrust
• vectoring
• loop

[FXWorldBeater]

Simply put, the F-22 has absolutely no equal, not even the new Russian PAK FA or the Chinese J-20.

It is by far the fastest cruiser, by far the best dogfighter, the most stealthy, with by far the best air to air sensors of any fighter in history and in the medium term future.

In the most accurate exercises know to man, it has decimated the F-15, the aircraft which holds the title of the most successful fighter in the world which has a record 105 kills, 0 losses in real air wars.

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[6308281]

just like the F15 dominated the air the F22 will own it 

[cro7485]

a great fighter of the U S

[82ndairborne100]

The F15 is still a good plane, now that it has a stealthy version, the F15SA it will still be one of the greatest planes, unfortunately the stealth isn't the best.

[FXWorldBeater]

@utubegavemeusername "but do remember F22's mission is striking enemy on every corner of this planet"

Not really, its primary role is air superiority, interception and strike package escort. Its not designed for long range and global strikes like the B-2 (soon to be replaced by the NGB in development).

PAK FA also has a major issue with its frontal VLO as well due to their inability to design a VLO IRST.

[utubegavemeusername]

@FXWorldBeater lol i dont know why we are arguing this...but really, no fighter beats F22 1vs1. And F22's real advantage is its supersonic cruise capability...or F119 lol, they are the beast

[utubegavemeusername]

@FXWorldBeater that i agree. but do remember F22's mission is striking enemy on every corner of this planet. Thus, F22 requires all-direction stealth, supersonic cruise to achieve that. However, at least IMO, PAK and J20 are not designed to defeat enemies thousands of miles away from their own base. Thus, they only requires front stealth as primary mission is intercepting enemy aircrafts (maybe F22 lol). Therefore, from that stand points, they are qualified fighters in their own system.

[FXWorldBeater]

@utubegavemeusername Given that the F-22 is part of the USAF's battle "system" it has that advantage by default.

No other airforce has the level of networking that we do. Russian aircraft are in fact incapable of sharing data at the same rates due to TKS-2 (russian datalinks) being more than 50 times slower than link-16, ifdl, madl....etc.

The F-22 clearly has better all aspect stealth than the PAK FA and J-20 which allows it to more effectively act as an ELINT asset than the other 2.

[utubegavemeusername]

@FXWorldBeater modern war is not the contest between weapons only. Systematic contest is the key to winning. F22 serves its own purpose well, as such standards were raised 25 years ago. Comparatively, J20 and PAK FA are designed recently. Thus they might have different standards compared with F22. Thus, it's not sufficient to simply compare F22 to PAK or J20 statistically, but systematically. From this stand point, F22 might not have overwhelming advantage in systematic contest.

[DeeJayHeadHigh]

216 is the highlight