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The F-22 Raptor fifth-generation warplane is the most potent in America’s arsenal today. Until the sixth-generation warplanes come online (if they ever do), the...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The F-22 Raptor has struggled with readiness rates throughout its service life, with numbers in recent years particularly troubling. Readiness has been a perennial...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1997, Russia unveiled the Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut, one of the most unusual fighter aircraft ever built. The aircraft was built with forward-swept wings...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. has canceled three major weapons programs in the past 20 years. The F-22 Raptor was capped at 187 airframes — 194 fewer...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
At the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium in February 2026, Lockheed Martin publicly displayed a production-representative scale model of what it informally...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force has deployed additional F-22 Raptor stealth fighters to Kadena Air Base in Japan as part of its ongoing effort to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy nearly built its own version of the legendary F-22 Raptor stealth fighter—a swept-wing carrier variant called the NATF-22 Sea Raptor that...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Air Force once imagined a stealth bomber based on the legendary F-22 Raptor—the FB-22 “Strike Raptor” that would have featured 27 hardpoints,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
“I could not believe it. I knew at that moment the U.S. Air Force had a problem on its hands that we could never...