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April 4, 2023 | By John A. Tirpak
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The Air Force’s proposed fiscal year 2024-2028 spending on the F-22 amounts to $4.2 billion in procurement—with another $1.74 billion “to completion,” circa 2030—and $3.2 billion in research, development, test, and evaluation, for a total of $9.06 billion through the end of the decade. That figure doesn’t include operations and maintenance.
The biggest items are for “sensor enhancement”—requested at $4.13 billion—and reliability and maintainability upgrades, requested at $2.43 billion.
Other major procurement efforts include Link 16 modifications, identification, friend or foe systems, trainer and simulator modifications, anti-jam/anti-spoofing position, navigation, and timing enhancements and modifications to the F-22’s Pratt & Whitney F119 engines.
The Air Force also wants to spend $553 million on stealthy long-range fuel tanks and pylons. Budget documents call for 326 tanks and 286 pylons, which would give each aircraft at least two full sets of each. The F-22 can fly at speeds up to Mach 1.2 with the tanks and pylons, budget documents say.
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“Upgrading the Block 20s to a combat configuration is cost-prohibitive and very time intensive,” Moore testified. “Based on the most advanced weapons that an F-22 Block 20 can carry now, it is not competitive with the [Shenyang] J-20, with the most advanced weapons the Chinese can put on it.”
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Opponents of the F-22 divestment argue the Air Force can continue to use the jets for training, but Moore said the configuration of the cockpit is so different from that of frontline aircraft that “there’s negative learning that occurs.” Pilots have to “unlearn some of the things that they learned in the Block 20 when they go to an operational aircraft.”
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Neither the F-22 nor NGAD accounts include funding for the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile (JATM), which is to be their primary weapon.
La USAF tiene pensado gastarse $9.000 millones en tener actualizados los F-22 hasta final de década
Atticus escribió:La USAF tiene pensado gastarse $9.000 millones en tener actualizados los F-22 hasta final de década
Haced las cuentas.... Sale mucho mas caro que comprarse un avion nuevo. Lo de "el prestigio" sale carisimo porque hace muchos años que, si no se tomaron ese avion en serio cuando debieron, el programa debio de haberse acabado. Aunque, ahora que lo pienso, posiblemente esa informacion no sea mas que intentar pegarle un martillazo a ese clavo en el ataud.
RMR_22 escribió:Los F-22 si han recibido actualizaciones y de hecho la gran mayoría de ellos. Solo sabéis mentir.
Luego encima tú exigiendo que te escriban resúmenes masticaditos cuando solo quieres soltar bilis a Estados Unidos y Lockheed.
Pues explícame tú en que se gastan 9000 millones en cambiarles maquinaria si están nuevos relucientes.
Es que si no es por que está anticuada (no actualizados?) no me lo puedo explicar. O necesitan toda actualización segun salga sangrandoles a lo grande...
ese es el problema que tú tienes conmigo, que lo que no sea hacerles la pelota de manera ciega te jode.
Teniendo en cuenta que a la mayoría los han actualizado entre poco y nada las últimas 2 décadas
8.2 M$/(año*avión)
Hablamos de costes de actualización. ¿Cuánto vale un avión que queda segundo en un combate?
Hace 26 años, el primer F-22 Raptor, también conocido como Raptor-01 o el "Spirit of America", se lanzó en la planta de Lockheed en Marietta, Georgia (9 de abril de 1997)
Published April 10, 2023
By Samuel King Jr.
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Developmental flight tests are underway for the Air Force’s new Next Generation Fixed Wing Helmet here.
Engineers with the 46th Test Squadron and the 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron oversee the helmet’s testing. Approximately five F-22A Raptor pilots from the 301st Fighter Squadron, a Reserve unit with the 43rd Fighter Squadron here, fly with the new lighter, cooler and more readily equipped helmet.
The NGFWH program goal is to provide pilots a more comfortable, stable, and balanced platform to accommodate helmet-mounted devices usage without imposing neck strain and discomfort to the user.
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Published June 25, 2022
By Lemuel Casillas
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The helmet will undergo additional research, testing and improvements prior to the Air Force confirming the prototype design is successful and offering a production contract in 2024. Following production, ACC plans to take a phased approach to deliver the new helmet to all fixed-wing aircrew members across the Air Force, beginning with the F-15E Strike Eagle.
April 28, 2023 | By John A. Tirpak
If Congress agrees with the Air Force’s request to retire 32 Block 20 F-22s as part of its fiscal 2024 budget, the aircraft will be used as trainers a while longer, then stored for an undetermined period at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base’s Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) “Boneyard” in Arizona, Air Combat Command told Air & Space Forces Magazine.
Eventually, they’ll be scrapped by Air Force personnel and contractors experienced in stealth materials disposal.
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The spokesperson said ACC hasn’t decided yet what kind of storage category will be applied to the F-22s. The AMARG has traditionally broken up the aircraft it stores into roughly four categories:
- Type 1000: The aircraft will be stored but not cannibalized for parts, on the chance that they may someday be recalled to service. However, they are not periodically powered up to run their systems.
- Type 2000: The aircraft are sources for parts cannibalization, but not destroyed in the process, and potentially restorable to duty.
- Type 3000: Aircraft in “temporary” storage, fully expected to return to flying status and run at least every 30 days. These aircraft may not even leave the runway apron. “Flyable storage,” a related category, calls for longer-term storage, with representative aircraft powered up and flown periodically, mostly to keep a small cadre of pilots proficient in their operation. The F-117 is in “flyable storage,” but some have been recalled to duty to act as stealthy adversaries in USAF wargames and test scenarios.
- Type 4000: Harvested for all usable parts, then scrapped for their valuable materials, such as titanium.
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Franfran2424 escribió:La USAF tiene pensado gastarse $9.000 millones en tener actualizados los F-22 hasta final de década. Haced las cuentas..
Venga voy. 9000M$ / 183 aviones...
con lo cual la escasa flota estará menos disponible y perderá más vida en misiones "no combativas".
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