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Consegnato ufficialmente l'ultimo esemplare ....

.... dal Daily Report dell' AFA - Thursday May 03, 2012

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Order Completed

Lockheed Martin delivered the 187th F-22 production aircraft to the Air Force during a May 2 ceremony at the company's manufacturing plant in Marietta, Ga.

Handover of Raptor 4195 completed the Air Force's order for the nation's first fifth generation fighter.

"The very existence of this airplane—your airplane—has altered the strategic landscape forever," said Robert Stevens, Lockheed Martin board chairman and CEO, to the Raptor workforce gathered for the event.

Advanced weapon systems like the F-22 will "help shape the future security environment and not just respond to it," said Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz at the ceremony.

Air superiority will remain the F-22's primary mission, but "it clearly will play a starring role" in the nation's new defense strategy that emphasizes deterring and defeating aggressors and projecting power into contested areas, said Schwartz.

He noted testing this year in which an F-22 retargeted a submarine-launched Tomahawk cruise missile in flight as an example of its enhanced joint interoperability.

Schwartz thanked the Raptor workforce.

"Your remarkable efforts will make very important contributions to our national security . . . for many, many years to come," he said.

Raptor 4195 is scheduled to join the 3rd Wing at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on May 4, a base spokesman told the Daily Report.

(Lockheed Martin release .... link )

(To watch ceremony, click here .... link )

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In an elaborate ceremony held at Lockheed's Marietta, Georgia factory on 2 May, the company's F-22 programme manager Jeff Babione handed over a ceremonial key for the last Raptor to US Air Force (USAF) Chief of Staff Gen Norton Schwartz, who then handed it over to pilot Lt Col Paul "Max" Moga, who then passed it onto his crew chief, Staff Sgt Damon Crawford.

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Dal sito di un lungo articolo dedicato alla consegna dell'ultimo esemplare ....


http://www.flightglo...-raptor-371401/

[nik978]

Ma..sarà veramente l'ultimo??

J-20, Pak...la concorrenza, seppur molto giovane e tutta da valutare, si fa sotto! vedremo...

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nik978, su 03 maggio 2012 - 08:57, ha detto:

Ma..sarà veramente l'ultimo??
J-20, Pak...la concorrenza, seppur molto giovane e tutta da valutare, si fa sotto! vedremo...

Non a caso ....

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Lockheed to preserve F-22 tooling for future use ....

Fonte .... .... http://www.flightglo...ure-use-345519/

Non si sa mai ....

[Flanker]

Io ho trovato questa notizia interssante:
"A "very small number" of Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor pilots are refusing to fly the jet, a top US Air Force official says. "Obviously it's a very sensitive thing because we are trying to ensure that the community fully understands all that we're doing to try to get to a solution," says Air Combat Command chief Gen Mike Hostage. He was speaking at press conference at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia on 30 April.

The USAF has not found the root cause of 11 hypoxia-like cases since the Raptor fleet returned to flight in September after a near five-month stand-down. The jet has flown about 12,000 times since then. Hostage says that while he will not force pilots to fly the F-22, those aviators won't "get a free pass to go do something else" however. But he says he believes that the USAF has "driven down the risk to a level where we can safely operate the airplane."

In solidarity with his pilots, Hostage says him will get himself checked out in the Raptor and fly the jet until the cause of the F-22's oxygen woes are discovered and fixed. "I'm going to check out and fly the airplane so I can understand exactly what it is they're dealing with. The day we figure out what the problem is I will stop flying because we don't have enough sorties for all of our combat aviators to get as much training as they need," Hostage says.

"I don't feel like it's right that I ask them to do it and I'm not willing to do it myself," he adds.

While Hostage did address the recent reports of the F-22 deploying to Al Dhafra, in the United Arab Emirates, he wouldn't confirm where the jet was deployed to, or where the aircraft came from, but the Raptor has deployed to Al Dhafra in previous years.

One source says the jets came from the 7th Fighter Squadron at the 49th Wing, based at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. He says that the deployment is routine and simply part of their air expeditionary forces rotation. Indeed, Hostage says the deployment was previously planned."

Fonte:
http://www.flightglo...-to-fly-371339/

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Flanker, su 04 maggio 2012 - 10:42, ha detto:

Io ho trovato questa notizia interessante ....
Fonte:
http://www.flightglo...-to-fly-371339/

La notizia era già stata postata qualche giorno fa nella sezione "News Aviazione" .... discussione "F-22 fleet grounded" .... ove potrai trovare altre informazioni ....

[Flanker]

Non l'avevo vista!
Chiedo scusa!

[thunderbolt]

http://www.corriere....001526487.shtml

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thunderbolt, su 07 maggio 2012 - 18:35, ha detto:

http://www.corriere....001526487.shtml

Come sopra .... vedasi sezione "News Aviazione" .... discussione "F-22 fleet grounded" ....

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L'ultimo F-22 ha raggiunto la sua base operativa ....

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Final F-22 Arrives for Beddown

The last F-22 built for the Air Force arrived at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, completing the beddown of the Raptor fleet.

Lt. Col. Paul Moga, commander of Elmendorf-Richardson's 525th Fighter Squadron, piloted the jet on its eight-hour, non-stop flight from Lockheed Martin's production facility in Marietta, Ga., on May 5.

"It's good to have this jet where it belongs," said Moga, who will fly this aircraft as the squadron's flagship.

The Air Force accepted Raptor 4195 on May 2 during a ceremony in Marietta.

(Elmendorf-Richardson release)

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The Air Force's final F-22 Raptor fighter, aircraft 4195, touches down at JB Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, May 5, 2012.
Lt. Col. Paul Moga, commander of the base's 525th Fighter Squadron, flew the new F-22 from Lockheed Martin's production facility in Marietta, Ga., to Elmendorf-Richardson, its beddown location.
Several of the base's C-17s are visible in the background.

Fonte ....

[tornado4ever]

scusate la domanda scontata e forse banale: mi chiedevo se il Raptor possa portare bombe a guida laser e relativo pod ( stile Pave Penny )

scusate ancora la domanda ( alla quale credo si debba rispondere di no ) ma è un tema da lungo discusso con numerosi amici...

[Vultur]

Si, ma dovrebbe imbarcare anche il pod di designazione laser, oppure bisognerebbe che qualcun altro (a terra o in aria) illumini il bersaglio con un laser. Macchinoso e sorpassato direi.

Questo messaggio è stato modificato da Vultur: 08 maggio 2012 - 16:36

[Flaggy]

La risposta è assolutamente no.
Il Raptor è adatto solo a portare JDAM a guida GPS-inerziale.
Non è previsto un pod laser che sull'F-22 dovrebbe giocoforza finire su un pilone subalare peggiorando la stealthness.
In ogni caso l'aereo nell'aria suolo non si spinge molto oltre ciò che è possibile fare con l'hardware attuale, agendo solo a livello software per l'integrazione di armamenti aria-suolo (come detto al momento solo bombe GPS al massimo di medio calibro).

[tornado4ever]

grazie per la conferma,

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Come dicevo nelle news , secondo il Lt. Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, i problemi di ipossia dei piloti di F-22 potrebbero derivare dalle particolari condizioni di altitudine al quale il mezzo si trova ad operare, combinato alle elevate forze G che i piloti sperimentano in volo. Ma i dati sono in continuo esame, ed è presto per poterlo affermare con certezza.