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F22 Raptor's First Intercept, with a Bear!

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  • #2
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    The pics are finaly released, that intercept happened on Thanks Givings Day, it would have been F-15s but they were grounded at the time.


  • #3
    Kaiser_Sma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Kaiser_Sma


    Is the F22 as impractical as they say. Not as they say in the link i mean...you know... 'they'


  • #4
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,449 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    [SeanConnery]And once again, we play our dangerous game with our old adversaries, the Americans. Our fathers played this game, and played it well. Now it is our turn...[/SeanConnery]

    NTM


  • #5
    Captain Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Captain Chaos


    It is actually like a new Cold War, you have F-22s intercepting Tu-95s off Alaska and F-16AMs, Tornado F3s and Typhoon FGR4s intercepting Tu-95s and Tu-160s over the North Sea.

    The F-22s based in Alaska are not even at IOC yet and won't be for another few months, I'd say they left their APG-77 radars in a passive mode and let the ALR-94 do the work instead and have the AWACS data link the radar image to them to let the '22s carry out the intercept while not allowing the Russians the record the APG-77's emissions with their ELINT gear.


  • #6
    Victor
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    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    The F-22s based in Alaska are not even at IOC yet and won't be for another few months,
    I think the Alaskan ones have, will check AFM.


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  • #7
    Captain Chaos
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    Victor wrote: »
    I think the Alaskan ones have, will check AFM.

    f-16.net says no. Only the squadrons at Tyndall and Langley have passed IOC.


  • #8
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,474 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Captain Chaos wrote: »
    f-16.net says no. Only the squadrons at Tyndall and Langley have passed IOC.
    Apologies. I confused the Langley story with the swop of F-16s to Alaska in a black/grey/grey colour scheme.


  • #9
    Tenger
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    Victor wrote: »
    Apologies. I confused the Langley story with the swop of F-16s to Alaska in a black/grey/grey colour scheme.

    I do like that Aggressors squadron colour scheme.

    AirCraft Monthly is running a story about the F15A-D being grounded and thus the need for 381 F22s rather than the currently approved 183.(It says about 100 Raptors have been built now) However it also states that the F22 hasn't been fully tested structurally and that it (strangely) doesn't have the same data link capabilites that the other USAF aircraft have. So CURRENTLY the F15E is the most capable aircraft the USAF have.


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