Retire the Best Fighter Jet the Air Force Has? Key Points: The F-22 Raptor, hailed as the greatest warplane ever built, has reached a significant milestone with 500,000 combined flight hours.

Air Force maintenance troops have developed customized stands at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, thus revolutionizing maintenance for the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet. The new customized stands ...

The world’s first-ever fifth-generation fighter platform may be nearing retirement, but the F-22 Raptor is still being enhanced to retain an edge over newer near-peers. As the Air Force’s top ...

A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor prepares to be refueled by a KC ... above Basa Air Force Base, Philippines, on Aug. 9, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Mitchell Corley) The last upgrade ...

The pilot declared an emergency and ejected before the plane went down Tuesday afternoon, military officials said.

Justin Taylor, vice president, F-22 program at Lockheed Martin added: "Lockheed Martin is proud to continue partnering with the Air Force on essential modernization efforts for the Raptor ...

Justin Taylor, vice president of the F-22 program, expressed pride in continuing the partnership with the Air Force, focusing on the modernization of the Raptor and reinforcing U.S. air superiority.

Fighter jets deployed rotationally to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa made precautionary landings there two days in a row.

At higher altitudes, however, it exceeds Mach 2 or 1,534 mph. The Air Force manual for the F-22 says that the Raptor's top speed is Mach 2, but James E. "JB" Brown pushed it to Mach 2.1 once ...

The same newspaper reported an F-22 Raptor stealth fighter made an emergency ... the 77th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., and F-22 Raptors from the 525th Expeditionary ...