The F-22A Raptor fighter developed by Lockheed Martin is the world's first fifth-generation fighter. The US Air Force has purchased 187 F-22As. The US Air Force has established a technical "generation difference advantage" by equipping the F-22A Raptor fighter jets, but now the US Air Force's F-22A Raptor fighter jets have to face the "overtaking on the curve" of the J-20 Veyron fighter jets. The F-22A Raptor in the United States was the technology of the 1990s. Today, with the rapid development of technology, the F-22A Raptor fighter has shown serious shortcomings, especially in the field of "cyber combat", the F-22A Raptor fighter does not have the ability to communicate confidentially with different aircraft models, which greatly limits the joint combat capabilities.
When the J-20 fighter jets were equipped in large quantities, the US military felt offended because the US Air Force lost its advantageous position of technical crushing. The J-20 fighter achieved its first flight of prototypes in 2011, so it adopted 21st century technology, which has a real technological advantage over the US Air Force's F-22A Raptor fighter. Regarding the situation where the F-22A no longer has a crushing advantage, the Pentagon has the idea of retiring the F-22A, because the Pentagon , the Pentagon is unwilling to invest too much money in the F-22A fighter. The F-35A Lightning II fighter is the "pillar" of the US Air Force, which makes the F-22A look useless.
According to the report of the US Defense Post website, the US Air Force F-22A fighter carried out a test-fire operation with 28 missiles, , Tyndall Air Force Base, , . The F-22A Raptor fighter successfully loaded and launched 28 air-to-air missiles. According to data released by the United States, the air-to-air missiles projected by the F-22A are worth US$14 million, thus creating a world record for the fighter to carry and launch air-to-air missiles. 202210219/Aviation Vision/AZ, the limit of the US Air Force F-15E/EX fighter attack aircraft carrying air-to-air missiles is 22. The F-22A Raptor fighter directly broke the mounting record of the F-15E/EX fighter and also launched it.
Regarding the US Air Force F-22A's practice of launching 28 air-to-air missiles, Aviation Vision believes that the US Air Force is "a stern move" because carrying 28 air-to-air missiles is carried out by installing external plug-ins. Therefore, when the F-22A has the "Beast Mode", it loses the basic requirement of the fifth-generation fighter, which is stealth ability. According to information released by the United States, in the stealth mode of the F-22A fighter, the built-in bomb bay can carry 8 air-to-air missiles, so it needs to be equipped with 20 air-to-air missiles through plug-ins, and the composite hanger mode needs to be adopted, which completely changes the radar reflection cross-sectional area of the F-22A fighter.
As the "founder of the fifth-generation fighter, the F-22A Raptor fighter, abandoning stealth mode in order to carry 28 air-to-air missiles, is obviously "not worth the loss", because in actual combat, it is very likely that it has been shot down by other fighters before it has launched air-to-air missiles. The radar signal characteristics brought by 20 air-to-air missiles will make the F-22A fighter a living target. The US Air Force F-22A Raptor fighter projected 28 air-to-air missiles, which is the ability of the US Air Force to deceive itself. In fact, it is not only the F-22A Raptor fighter that has the so-called "beast mode", but the F-35 Lightning II fighter as a JSF joint attack aircraft also has the "beast mode", so there is no longer any stealth.
