(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-22

[Nightwatch]

Inside the F-22 Raptor's Historic Surprise Deployment to Europe

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“This was the first time a four-ship of clean (no tanks) F-22s made the transit across the Atlantic (circa nine hours) and joined the fight. We undertook the ‘pond hop’, then departed the tanker over northern UK and rejoined with other assets (F-15E Strike Eagles from RAF Lakenheath) and conducted a training sortie. After landing, maintenance rapidly prepared our Raptors for another sortie and the jets took off again a few hours later, demonstrating another capability of the ‘Rapid Raptor’ concept. The training mission consisted of multiple advanced air-to-air and surface-to-air threats. During the mission, the F-22s dropped simulated ordnance and integrated with local assets stationed in the UK.”

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The unit as a whole only had 72 hours notice before deploying.

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As an example, during an Offensive Counter-Air focused training mission, the F-15Cs integrated with F-22s to gain air dominance against an advanced air-to-air fighter threat, allowing the F-15Es to roam freely across the battlespace and further integrate with F-22s to find, fix, target, track, engage and assess both medium and long-range Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM) sites in a contested Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) environment.”

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Tja, schauen wir mal wann man das mit der F-35 hinbekommt.