America's New Super F-22 Built to Defeat China

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The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighter is being revamped to fly further and detect targets at longer ranges, especially near-peer 4.5 and 5th-generation fighters. The US Air Force announced the $11 billion upgrades for the Raptor at the end of 2021, and now we have a first glimpse of what the upgraded aircraft looks like with new stealth drop tanks and external pylons. So, if war breaks out with China, this is the fighter that will go into the fight. But will these new features be enough to win and preserve US air superiority while it waits for its sixth-generation fighter?

Written by: Chris Cappy and Armando Duarte Galán
Video edited by: Max

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[tobymaltby]

F22: "They say I'll be obsolete in 10 years"
B52: "...people been sayin' that 'bout me for 60 years..."

[johna.zoidberg]

"Would you intercept me ... I would intercept me."

[bernardli]

If they don't call the upgraded Raptor the King Raptor, command and conquer fans will cry.

[TheOriginalFaxon]

Thank you for using so much footage from Growling Sidewinder to demo jets on your content in general, his content is some of the best out there in the flight sim space, and he has more simulated hours in some of these jets than actual pilots. Glad to see my boy succeeding with his content as much as he is. Just a big fan who wants to see him get more subs (and sponsor money) so he can afford to spend more time making videos for us.

[spicywater]

Considering the number of conflicts around the world right now, I would think keeping the Raptor is a no-brainer. Our pilots are already lethal with the Raptor.

[jakesanchez]

I know this is random, but the United States lost their last triple fighter ace of world war 2. Brigadier General Bud Anderson. The man shot down 16 planes during world war 2, and flew along with the legend Chuck Yeager.

Rest in peace Bud Anderson.

[-Cmrd_CVID]

I love when people say “The F22 is too old and too technologically deficient to keep in service; and the upgrades cost too much, ” and then say “There’s absolutely nothing wrong with upgrading the F15 and F16 platforms and keeping them in the air until the 2050s, ” when both of those first flew while we still had troops in Vietnam…

Don’t get me wrong, the F15 and F16 are both legendary. But don’t tell me the F22 from 1997 is too old while the F15 and F16 first flew when rotary-dial phones were still a thing. FOH.

[SVTCobra]

Q: "Why spend to upgrade the F-22 when that $$ could be spent on the NGAD?"
A: Because then we'll have upgraded F-22s AND NGAD.

[MarynJohnForever]

I just got to interview a retired THAAD engineer.
Walked into picking up furniture for auntie at some random house, turned into an interview. Way cool to have some questions answered. Shined a light on a lot of
Geeekin stuff.
🎉🥳🚀

[DaleKallio]

Capacity and range reinventing. 16:52 Comprimiae and advantage. Always evaluated against price.

[wompa]

We’re going to end up with fleets of B-52s and F-15s patrolling the hyperspace lanes.

[PitFriend]

US Air Force: We need to retire these F-22s, they’re getting old.

Also US Air Force: We’re upgrading the B-52s again. They never get old!

[ZedBuildsStuff]

Point of clarification: they wanted to retire only the oldest raptors because they were not built in the same configuration as the majority of the fleet and it was going to be really expensive to bring them up to standard config. Also, they didn't go from wanting to retire the raptor fleet to upgrading it, they went from paying for the upgrades with the money saved by retiring the early production tails, to just inflating the budget even more/pulling money away from ngad.

[josephsorce]

"The 'F-22', will have Upgrades to it's On-board Dual Wing-Mounted ... Slingshots !".

[Krommer]

2:17 Growling Sidewinder shout-out! Woot Woot!

[javajunky]

Shutting down the F-22 production line was a mistake that is on par with the Littoral Combat Ship program. Short sighted and naive cost savings strategies that didn’t pan out.

[JoannDavi]

I like how America openly debates pros and cons of anything military related, whereas China and Russia: "Our ____ is perfection, the best thing ever, and can realign the planets."

[Scalabrio]

How they could even consider retiring the Raptor, is beyond my comprehension. This thing is so far ahead of its time. Glad they are upgrading it

[advancedmanufacturingenter]

You got it a little mixed up, as a former USAF Mechanic, I can assure you the mechanics are the ones fueled by fine scothch...

[JSKYWKR]

11:45 LMAO.
“Ever since sword combat, we’ve just been growing further and further apart.
War is getting lonelier and lonelier”