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F-22 Used For The First Time in Combat.
Foxnews.com ^ | Sept 22, 2014

Posted on 09/22/2014 8:37:22 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

Fox news reported on TV that the F-22 was finally used in combat for the Syria/Iraq/ISIS airstrikes tonight.


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: f22; iraq; isil; isis; kurdistan; syria; waronterror
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To: familyop

It appears to me that if one really wanted to make it small...


81 posted on 09/23/2014 1:01:30 AM PDT by Paul R. (Leftists desire to control everything; In the end they invariably control nothing worth a damn.)
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To: IDFbunny

The point of using the F-22 now is to assure that Syria behaves.


82 posted on 09/23/2014 1:08:33 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

It wasn’t invisible because “stealth, as USAF sells it, is dead. In the 90’s, Russian and Chinese techs begain modifying radars to use shorter bandwidth frequencies that are better at detecting aircraft, regardless of shape or coating. In addition, there’s really no way to mask all of the ‘trons flowing from an aircraft.


83 posted on 09/23/2014 2:14:05 AM PDT by DesScorp
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To: yarddog; IDFbunny
I agree. That would seem to be the place to use old F-15s and 16s.

They have to be broken in somewhere. Better sooner than later.

84 posted on 09/23/2014 2:32:30 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Are you sure about this? The first time?


85 posted on 09/23/2014 4:12:17 AM PDT by Slambat
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

You’re correct. Its first mission was during the United States invasion of Panama in 1989. During that invasion two F-117A Nighthawks dropped two bombs on Rio Hato airfield. November 1988 BG Tony Tolin brought the bird out of the black world into the white.


86 posted on 09/23/2014 4:44:59 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: F15Eagle

A-10s are still flying over Missouri.


87 posted on 09/23/2014 5:44:23 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: freedumb2003
the F-22 is the first F/A to be outfitted with Atomic warhead capabilities...

Completely wrong.
88 posted on 09/23/2014 6:05:39 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: MasterGunner01
An the first use of the ultra deadly, stealthy F-22 Raptor was as a BOMBER! We used a super secret, fifth generation, stealth fighter as a bomber and we only have 195 (8 test and 187 operational aircraft) of them because they were so costly at $150 million (and are now out of production). This is utter insanity. We could have used F-15E Strike Eagles, but the F-22 Raptor!?!? What are the idiots in USAF HQ thinking?

Well, they also used the F-104 as a bomber so that does not surprise me. B-P
89 posted on 09/23/2014 8:50:16 AM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: M1911A1
I had fun with a libtard who I see sometimes at work...he was a Bush era war protester and I got to ask him when the protests were restarting now that his hero Zero was bombing with no war authority, backed by his mythical coalition of phantom allies.

Don't forget to ask about the exit strategy and the plan for winning the peace.

90 posted on 09/23/2014 8:59:49 AM PDT by Vroomfondel
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To: TalonDJ

Well I did say “correct me if I am wrong.”

From what I have been getting dang near all modern F/As are nuclear capable...


91 posted on 09/23/2014 9:42:19 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: F15Eagle
Congressional bean counters and Air Force bureaucrats have knocked more A-10s out of the sky than any enemy ground fire could have ever hoped to.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

92 posted on 09/23/2014 9:47:58 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: MasterGunner01

WOW!


93 posted on 09/23/2014 10:41:41 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (luke 6:38)
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To: Paul R.

Very interesting. Thank you. There have been some engineering problems to solve for making them smaller, mainly maintaining enough heat and keeping it localized for enough duration. [If correct, as that was delivered in the ‘80s during an astronomy class lecture. The instructor was a dedicated counter-culture Atheist with a PhD. in a small, Midwestern university that was more feminist than anything else.]


94 posted on 09/23/2014 11:23:10 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: freedumb2003

Yeah, more or less. Fighter carried nukes are pretty small so it does not required a fancy plane to carry one. The F-22 might NOT be nuke capable only because all of its bomb handling capability was added on after they were deployed. They might have skimped on the upgrade and not included tac-nukes in the stores management software. Or maybe they did. Not sure anyone that knows for sure would tell us.


95 posted on 09/23/2014 1:10:14 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: familyop

To be fair the F-22 can carry external stores. Hence it may be able to carry that particular bomb.


96 posted on 09/23/2014 1:13:28 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ

That’s interesting, and it helps to show us generally why much R&D is going into other equipment.


97 posted on 09/23/2014 9:19:48 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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