F-22 Brief.ppt

Development Decisionsof the F-22 Overview Development of Previous USAF Aircraft Reasons for Development Aircraft Design Goals Proposals for ATF Competition ATF Competition Flight Test and Further Development Raptor’s Mission Previous Aircraft Development USAF had no Air Superiority Fighter in Vietnam F-15 and “Fighter Experimental” (FX) Program First true Air Superiority Fighter Provides fighter sweep, escort and CAP capability F-16 and the “Lightweight Fighter Mafia” John Boyd, Pierre Sprey and Col. Everest Riccioni make up “Mafia” “Mafia” pushed for inexpensive, lightweight fighter excelling in dogfighting In flight tests, F-16 “kills” F-4E in mock combat Reasons For 4th Generation Fighter Development USSR Upgrading Military Replacing older aircraft with MiG-23/27s and Su-22M3/M4 Projected threat of MiG-29 and Su-27 Thought to nearly match performance of F-15 and F-16 New Surface to Air Missiles Greater range and accuracy Aircraft Design Goals Air-superiority fighter Supersonic cruise Increased combat radius over F-15 Stealthy Take-off and landing in 2000 ft Easier maintainability than F-15 60,000 to 80,000 take-off weight Reasonable Price Advanced Tactical Fighter Proposals General Dynamics Tailless, delta-wing design Design was changed to include a single vertical tail which hurt its all-aspect stealth Boeing V-tail , diamond wing design Most notable feature -- single chin inlet Northrop YF-23 Diamond-shaped wing Shallow-angle V-tails Unique ‘fly-by-light’ control system Supercruise ( M1) Design stresses stealthiness and speed Lack of agility gave YF-22 advantage in ATF competition Northrop YF-23 Lockheed YF-22 Conventional design with trapezoidal wings and horizontal and vertical tails Vectored thrust gives high agility Supercruise Stealthy Demonstration testing included missile firing and full avionics mock-up Lockheed wins ATF competition Lockheed YF-22 F-22 Raptor AF to acquire 339 F-22s (down from 750) First flight on 7 September 1997 Avionics testbed on