Thursday, July 21, 2005

 

Steve's Video Of The Day: F/A-22 Raptor

The new American attack/fighter is the Lockheed Martin F/A-22 Raptor. What a machine. Watch it in action! Gotta' love the "thrust vectoring"!

VIDEO - F/A-22 Raptor

F-22 Raptor Specifications

Official Nickname: Raptor

User: U.S. Air Force

Function: Air superiority fighter

Contractors:

Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems: F-22 program management, the integrated forebody (nose section) and forward fuselage (including the cockpit and inlets), leading edges of the wings, the fins and stabilators, flaps, ailerons, landing gear and final assembly of the aircraft.

Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems: Center fuselage, stores management, integrated navigation and electronic warfare systems (INEWS), the communications, navigation, and identification (CNI) system, and the weapon support system.

Boeing: wings, aft fuselage (including the structures necessary for engine and nozzle installation), radar system development and testing, avionics integration, the training system, and flight-test development and management.

Pratt & Whitney: F119-PW-100 engines that power the Raptor.

Major Subcontractors: Approximately 240 firms in 37 states are considered major subcontractors

More than 1,150 firms in 46 states and Puerto Rico, along with firms in seven international countries make up the F-22/F119 subcontractor team.

(partial list):
Northrop Grumman
Texas Instruments
Kidde-Graviner Ltd.
Allied-Signal Aerospace
Hughes Radar Systems
Harris
Fairchild Defense
GEC Avionics
Lockheed Sanders
Kaiser Electronics
Digital Equipment Corp.
Rosemount Aerospace
Curtiss-Wright Flight Systems
Dowty Decoto, EDO Corp.
Lear Astronics Corp.
Parker-Hannifin Corp.
Simmonds Precision
Sterer Engineering
TRW
XAR
Motorola
Hamilton Standard
Sanders/GE Joint Venture
Menasco Aerospace

Projected Employment: 15,000 in EMD and 27,000 in production

Propulsion: two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 engines

Thrust: 35,000 lbst

Length: 62.08 feet, 18.90 meters

Height: 16.67 feet, 5.08 meters

Wingspan: 44.5 feet, 13.56 meters

Wing Area: 840 square feet

Horizontal Tailspan: 29 feet, 8.84 meters

Maximum Takeoff Weight: (sorry)

Ceiling: (sorry)

Speed: Mach 1.8 (supercruise: Mach 1.5)

Crew: one pilot

Armament: Two AIM-9 Sidewinders, six AIM-120C Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAM), one 20mm Gatling gun, two 1,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM)

First flight: September 7, 1997

Flight Test Aircraft: Nine

Flight Test Program Length: 1997 until 2003 (Approximately 2,700 flights covering roughly 4,800 test hours in EMD)

Date Deployed: deliveries beginning in 2002, operational by 2004

Initial Operational Capability: Late 2005

Planned Production: 339 aircraft between 1998 and 2013

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