The Stealth Fighter That America Never Exported 

Mega bummer and I cry about it everyday

Just for the record, it's a tight squeeze.

Just use a simulation 😊

It’s all of our dreams to sad😭😭😭

They might let you sit in the bombbbay🤔

Louder than Russia suk hoi? I think Russian jet is the loudest.

@@maemilev probably. I am from Russia and hear weird things sometime that sounds like a jet

No bro, I’m a crew chief for F35s, I’ve seen and heard F22s overhead and they are QUIET compared to the F35 man, loudest fighter jet I’ve heard to this day

@PipelineF35guy Oh yeah, I've heard that as well from my Airforce friends. Can't even imagine the noise. I thought explosives were loud

They are capable of being quiet, but during maneuvers and gaining altitude that's out the window.

He's sick and tired of this vegan balloon diet shit. NEEDS MORE MEAT MEAT IN HIS PLATE😆!

HLC shoutout

Let him eat.

I see youre Man of culture as well

I'd intercept me sooo hard!

Seriously! Seeing them in person, doing things that would stall another plane, or kill the pilot, is amazing

@@The_Mimewarif the pilot crashed then he would die, yes

@@NorthWestKings not at all what I said or meant

​@@NorthWestKings Pilots have survived crashes before. So, technically NO

@@The_MimewarI 100% agree with you!

The Growling Sidewinder F22 fights are cool.

It’s a sexy aircraft!

No if you want a stealthy spaceship plane, Boeing X-37b.

The F35 is not American!! It's us, UK, Spain, and Israel who all invested and developed it. So F35 is not an American plane.

It's not spaceship because it needs air to fly

No, no the sr-71 is fast not stealthy

​@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername24 no the sr-71 was indeed stealthy Vs it's contemporaries. All those swooping lines go a long way to shrinking its cross section. And stealth goes back to the second world war with a certain British light bomber (mosquito) being made from wood and being very hard to spot on radar.

@@icantcomeupwithagoodusername24 - The Blackbird was entirely designed to be stealthy and achieved it through a combination of its shape, some of the very first composite materials ever used and its characteristics.

@@crashburn3292 yeah but the main point was to be fast not stealthy as missiles were fired at it. It has more in common with the U2 than the 117

@@crashburn3292 Stealth goes back to 1200BC when they used the Trojan horse

Most people interpret dogfights as just turn rate, but it is VERY complicated, and generally varies between "One circle" and "Two circle" both having sets of complicated and challenging tactics to exploit the advantages of an aircraft. Growling sidewinder gives great demonstrations for the complexity of dogfights.

​@@WildmanTrading while GS uses perfect theoretical technique DCS cannot compensate for pilot fatigue from constant g loads.

@@WildmanTrading i mean growling sidewinder uses dcs but ehhh

@@WildmanTrading I understand the complexities of nose-to-nose and nose-to-tail dogfighting. I'm referring to the methods used to defeat moderate to long range fox 3 missiles. In BVR the Raptor primarily benefits from its low observability and high thrust to weight ratio instead of thrust vectoring or supermaneuvrability which are both more suited for one circle dogfighting with high off bore sight fox 2 missiles.

@@supertracker9823 Who cares about dogfighting anymore as it is non existent with new stealth technologies. misiles are now fired beyond visual range and why F22 was being retired.

Had a similar oppurtunity with the boy scouts way back in the day to see the last 3 f22s at the same lockheed plant in marietta

And this kind of tour is how the Russians used gummy shoes to pick up the material to take back to their labs and reverse-engineer the coatings.

@@davidboatman925that’s a bullshit comment I would say

F35 is ultimate information death machine thing, killer.

F-35 is a glorified harrier, it's just a modernized version.

@SilvaDreams f35 is not just a modernized harrier it's a completely different design. A modernized harrier will be a harrier that has been upgraded.

@@SilvaDreams”Just?” You’re really going to trivialize the sweat and blood thousands of smart, dedicated people that created the F-35?

I heard the F-35 is shit.😂

Considering one litterally snuck up on two Iranian jets and politely told them to go home... yeah.

Can't cite my source unfortunately, but the F-22 has a radar cross-section of equivalent size to a bumblebee. It'll be extremely difficult to make anything that can top this in stealth capabilities.

@@TornaitSuperBird Smaller actually, the B-2 bomber has a radar cross section of about 0.01 inches and the F-22 is 0.001

@@SilvaDreams radar cross section for military jets means nothing today, by design

I agree 110%!! I'm also a Army vet served in Iraq 10-12. Cheers

​@@dieselboy610 yay hurray for death machines what a thing to be proud of

too much soy in your diet boy, be gone.@@user-qr8nb5dg8o

Wouldn't you prefer to have free Healthcare instead?

They constantly upgrade the sensors and electronics, they just don't make it public knowledge. Hell the public didn't even know the F-22 existed till 2005

​​@@SilvaDreamstell that to any one in Atlanta, and you will find out otherwise.

@@bowez9 I used to live near Dobbins Air Force Reserve base. It was so loud after Sept 11th.

No? F-22s have not been upgraded in a long time. Their production lines ended a long time ago. I don't know where you're getting that information. There have only been upgrade _proposals_ made, not actual upgrades.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@SilvaDreams Not even close. There was a F-22 game in 1997 and it was shown to the public the same year. The YF-22 prototype was shown to the public in 1991 in the press conference awarding Lockheed the ATF contract, not sure if it was public even before then. Suffice to say 2005 is very wrong.

yes. Continue to masturbate on the very real, and, truly something telling number. Because it's idiots in military which display heat emissions from aircraft in a complicated "hedgehog" shaped graph over flat plane top-down view. With pike, obviously being at the back. Yet with radar reflect ability, you can just give a number XD, commoner will "eat" that. You are hilarious, sect of low aR-Cee-eS witnesses.

You're actually incorrect. The F117 is the stealthiest aircraft we have

@@jackbower8671 actually you're incorrect. The F22 is stealthier than the F117. F22 RCS 0.0001 F117 RCS 0.001

​@@jackbower8671 The f22 is way more stealthy than the f117.

@@Nesstor01 and that 0.0001 RCS is the unclassified number. In all reality it is probably better than that given how much the US under reports what it's equipment is capable of. US do be living by the mantra of "better to under-promise and over-deliver, than to over-promise and under-deliver."

At one time Japan was in discussions to make the YF-23 a reality for their own Air Force. I’m not sure what became of that, likely due to NATO pressure they’ll end up purchasing the F-35 but to me the YF-23 is an amazing looking aircraft.

Would not have been available for export

Japan, has tried over and over again to persuade the US to allow them to purchase the F-22

Didn't do much?! He was apart of the YF-23 program, that's plenty.

Didn't do much? TELL THAT TO THE GUY THAT NEEDED THAT SEAT......

damn u guys speedrun a 14 minutes video for 1 minute

Yup, first plane they used ram on was the sr-71

thats the cool thing about stealth, you are not able to tell the difference if you are not flying the raptor

Japan uses them by the way. They didn't go to waste thankfully.

You are very ignorant. The F-22 is outclassed by Russian rivals. We, the US, hasn't made a serious fighter plane since the F-15.

@@LoneStarMillennialthat’s the funniest thing i have ever heard, thanks for the laughs. In all seriousness though you would have to be brainwashed or know nothing about jets to think the russians beat us at the moment

That's what I've been saying - and the fact that the US has at least stealth fighters, bombers, and drones as well as a stealth helicopter while everybody else is stuck at 4.5 gen technology is insane. As well as having flying prototypes of 6th gen fighters.

@@LoneStarMillennial Russians are so stealthy nobody can find their 5th Gen planes.

​@@LoneStarMillennial😂🤣😂🤣😂 drink that kool aid... That's why every ally backed out of the SU-57 program ... Reduced visibility at best, unreliable motors, crashing in tests, only 11 built 🤦 the f-22 and the f-35 would roll anything Russia has up with minimal losses if any

a fantastic bird huh? Is that your opinion or a documented fact? The Brits shocked the world with the Harrier it was a truly impressive engineering masterpiece for the time, and as an 1980s/90s kid growing up the Harrier posters covered my bedroom walls for many years I admit I was obsessed with this thing, utterly besotted. However the highest pedastool it once sat aloft would quickly disintegrate when the internet came along and all of a sudden I had access to more information than I ever thought possible and thru that enthusiastic exploration of information about the Harrier was countless ex and serving RAF guys who thru countless interviews docos podcasts ect actually set the record straight about this POS (their words) having a keen fondness for an old flame you went through a lot of hard times together is one thing but I can honestly say I've ever heard a Harrier pilot refer to it as a "FANTASTIC BIRD"

I believe HLC described it as the "F-22 Thumbtack", cause all it's ever done is pop a baloon. That and not be seen by Iranian or F-4 radar, sneaking up on two of them and then telling them to go home.

The only unclassified missions, I do believe it was used to push russian mercenaries back in Turkey? Syria? Not sure.

@@amb1u5 Wagner in Syria. ConocoPhillips oil field.

A win is a win.

It was a really big balloon... Scary too.

Actually later on the F22 was considered to be exported but by then the F35 programme was being done and USA never really bothered with a export version. Considering Australia is getting nuclear sub tech. F22 is not special technology. F35 has more advanced technology also. And guess what air to air dogfighting is obsolete now. with the stealth technology of the F35 etc it is all about firing beyond visual range.

Because it needs like 12 countries to produce all the parts, so even with US's massive tech sector, the F35 is so complicated and advanced that China or no other country alone can create the F35 alone!

The lines were destroyed after production stopped. The same factory space is being used to build the F-35.

To be able to afford the F-35, the US worked with many of it's allies to boost overall production and lower costs. Didn't work so well, F-35 so over budget and late of deliveries, many countries pulled out all together and others reduced the number committed to. Another great example of the military-industrial complex taking US citizens to the bank....

@@unclebob8746 You are mixing up different issues to meaninglessness. More buyers allows economy of scale. It does not iron out production problems or the issues of making new technology work.

Imagine what they don't show us😢

It was gimped from the start anyway. It never got all the sensors it was meant to and then they never really bothered with the much needed upgrades. The only positive is that the NGAD is coming earlier so they can retire the F-22.

That's actually good.

😅

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Agreed, but allegedly, the reason we haven't sold them is because we wanted to make an even better one. I think the Super Raptor is being produced or is planning to be produced soon

Yes, yes, yes. I’m starting a GoFundMe to restart the production line.