The Stealth Fighter That America Never Exported

This is the story of America's most advanced fighter jet ever built. But why the F-22 Raptor had a gold canopy, and why the United States never sold it to any of its allies, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT

Music:
Fatal Attraction (Instrumental Version) - Vicki Vox
The Showroom - V.V. Campos
Some Kinda Medication - Pip Mondy
Subconscious - Nihoni
Hurry Up Please - Anthony Earls
Craft - Anthony Earls
Black Bullet - Deskant
Floods - Frank Jonsson
Pressure Drop - Max Anson

Footage:
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[NotWhatYouThink]

Being a single-seat airplane means I'll never get to fly in the F-22 ... BUMMER ...

[Askorti]

"Would you intercept me?
I'd intercept me" - F22 raptor.
xD

[sangwonpark]

The military base next to my house once hosted a F-22 airshow and it was absolutely one of the loudest things I've head in my life. Damm thing was actually louder than a gun range.
I went out for groceries and even though the base was about 5~10km away I had to scream at the clerks ear to say anything.

[KD-]

I was at an airshow. and they had an f22 do an backflip. and the plane just broke everything. it did an back flip by going upward and then while staying in the same ALT it just flipped its self. this is the best way I can describe it as there are no words to describe what I saw.

[jonathanmatthews]

I could just watch footage of the F-22 flying for hours.

Such an amazing aircraft

[americankid]

The F-22 and the F-35 are basically spaceships in my mind.
I was at an Airshow that had an F-35 and it was nuts. It didn’t do any ridiculous stuff but it could turn around so dang fast.

And them being able to launch missiles at targets that other planes are showing is insane.

[crashburn]

"Since the 1980s Lockheed had already been experimenting with stealth in the F-117 Nighthawk platform." - Lockheed first began working on stealth as far back as the late 1950s. The SR-71 Blackbird, designed in the early 1960s, was an experiment in stealth.

[fearthehoneybadger]

I visited Lockheed/Marietta by invitation of my nephew, who built C130s there. I saw the last run of F22s being built in the same building.

[memento_mori_dori]

Didn't expect for you to drop the F-Bomb 😂

[supertracker]

The correct term for the coating on the F22 is not "LO" it's RAM for radiation-absorbent material.
Supermaneuvrability is not used to dodge missiles (Yes you can jam the WEZ but that's in dogfighting which is very rare). Energy retention is actually superior for dodging missiles in BVR.

[tylerakerfeldt]

The F-35 is the Hannibal, from the A-Team, of the US military. Intelligent team leader that can combine the best abilities from their team to complete the mission as efficiently as possible. The F-22 acts more like Deadpool. A mutant one man demolition crew that you never see or hear coming

[LSUfan]

Very nice video. Thank you for posting it!

[edwardbryan]

When nobody knows the F-22's missions or even seen them fight, then THAT is how stealthy they are.

[Santoroz]

You don't mention they have just been upgrading the Raptor to current tech. I'm happy to see they decided to support the platform.

[krishivrathore]

ive been waiting for this video for so long

[Nesstor]

This thing is 10x more stealthy than the first production stealth plane which is the F-117 Nighthawk. For reference, 10 Nighthawks hovered above Baghdad in 1991 for over an hour without the Iraqis knowing before they dropped their bombs on key infrastructure in Baghdad. Baghdad was the most heavily fortified and secured location at that time in the world and these things just sat their non-chalant over Baghdad.

Edit - Nighthawks RCS is 0.001
F22 RCS is 0.0001
One is the size of a golfball and the other is the size of a bumblebee.

[TxTrey]

My uncle worked on all of the emergency stuff inside of the YF-23. He was a designer. He didn’t do much, but he mainly worked on the ejection seat.

[ThatoneGuy-zdrl]

The F22 and F35 are incredible pieces of machinery - it’s art in the deadliest form. God I love this country - US Army Vet

[gunmetalrook]

Awesome vid. Favorite fighter jet by far.

[briancavanagh]

The English Electric Lightning was one of the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in level flight without using after burning.
The F106 was capable of low supersonic speeds without afterburner but with a significant range penalty.