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Title: With all the b-29 requests, I think it's time...
Post by: trigger2 on November 04, 2008, 12:12:03 PM
We need the f-22A raptor!  :aok

Here's some of the stats for you!
General Characteristics
Primary Function: Air dominance, multi-role fighter
Contractor: Lockheed-Martin, Boeing
Power Plant: Two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines with afterburners and two-dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles.
Thrust: 35,000-pound class (each engine)
Wingspan: 44 feet, 6 inches (13.6 meters)
Length: 62 feet, 1 inch (18.9 meters)
Height: 16 feet, 8 inches (5.1 meters)
Weight: 43,340 pounds (19,700 kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 83,500 pounds (38,000 kilograms)
Fuel Capacity: Internal: 18,000 pounds (8,200 kilograms); with 2 external wing fuel tanks: 26,000 pounds (11,900 kilograms)
Payload: Same as armament air-to-air or air-to-ground loadouts; with or without 2 external wing fuel tanks.
Speed:  Mach 2 class with supercruise capability
Range: More than 1,850 miles ferry range with 2 external wing fuel tanks (1,600 nautical miles)
Ceiling: Above 50,000 feet (15 kilometers)
Armament: One M61A2 20-millimeter cannon with 480 rounds, internal side weapon bays carriage of two AIM-9 infrared (heat seeking) air-to-air missiles and internal main weapon bays carriage of six AIM-120 radar-guided air-to-air missiles (air-to-air loadout) or two 1,000-pound GBU-32 JDAMs and two AIM-120 radar-guided air-to-air missiles (air-to-ground loadout)
Crew: One
Unit Cost: $142 million
Initial operating capability:  December 2005 err... 1942.   :D
Title: Re: With all the b-29 requests, I think it's time...
Post by: glock89 on November 04, 2008, 12:16:13 PM
Sure we should get SAMS  then to.
Title: Re: With all the b-29 requests, I think it's time...
Post by: Yossarian on November 04, 2008, 12:32:29 PM
[snip]

I like it!!! +1   :aok
Title: Re: With all the b-29 requests, I think it's time...
Post by: Puck on November 04, 2008, 01:47:25 PM
The F-22A never saw combat in WWII.  The F-14A, on the other hand...

He's a nice F-22A pic for you.  This was taken from an F/A-18E driven by a former F-14 pilot.  Pipper on the spine, Raptor headed down looking for all that E it left behind...good thing for the air force the guns were dry.


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