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this aircraft is the most advanced of

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its breed built around the first look

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first shot first kill ethos it is all

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set to become the air dominant stealth

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fighter of the 21st century the Raptor

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is a killing machine just like the name

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implies as deadly as it looks it's even

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more deadly when a gas gets out there

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and does its job

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deadly and undetectable at long range

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this breathtaking fifth-generation

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fighter blends unmatched dogfighting

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with precision strike ground attack

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capabilities you literally are able to

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swim through the sharks and the sharks

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never see you and never know you're

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there at any point in time you can reach

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out and touch them with deadly force

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capable of super crews and packing a

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deadly array of state-of-the-art missile

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systems this stealth jet of the new

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millennium can intercept and strike any

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target with near impunity they die they

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die without knowing where the Raptors

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are they die without knowing that they

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were targeted they die often now using

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unique footage will take you on an

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all-access tour of America's newest

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super weapon the FA 22 rut

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1981 in his first press conference as

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chief executive of the United States

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Ronald Wilson Reagan offered a deal to

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the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev if

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Soviet ss-20 missiles aimed at Western

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Europe were removed America would not

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deploy its Pershing to cruise missiles

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to counter the threat

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throughout the 1960s and 70s the Soviets

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developed different missiles to attack

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in different altitude bands you couldn't

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fly under the missile threat you

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couldn't fly over the missile threat you

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had to deal with the missile threat one

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way to do that is to make suppression of

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enemy air defense that is destroying the

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missile sites in the radars the most

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important mission for the Air Force by

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the 1970s air superiority had reimagine

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and the US Air Force committed to

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building its first pure air superiority

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fighter an aircraft that would

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eventually become the f-15 Eagle

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but just as f-15s became operational in

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1978 alarming new evidence suggested

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that the new fighter superiority might

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only be temperament

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u.s. reconnaissance satellites passing

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over a Soviet flight test center north

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of Moscow discover new Soviet fighters

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being tested one was the agile fighter

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the Mikoyan mig-29 but the other came as

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a huge shock to Western analysts it was

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bigger than the f-15 and far bigger than

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any previous Soviet built fighter the

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Sukhoi t10 prototype at that time the

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Soviet Union initiated some very

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aggressive programs to come up with

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counters in both the mckeon and Sukhoi

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both those design bureaus initiated new

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aircraft development efforts and it

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appeared that they run a track they

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would field some very advanced fighters

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if the mig-29 had concerned the American

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military establishment the existence of

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the Sukhoi t10 set alarm bells ringing

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these are very good aircraft their

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aircraft that play in the same league as

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some of the top NATO aircraft like

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phantom and ultimately like f-15

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the goal is world peace just weeks into

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his first term America's 40th president

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increased US defense spending by thirty

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two point five billion dollars and began

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the rearmament of the United States on a

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colossal scale

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in 1981 the Cold War was getting very

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warm

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as Reagan and Brezhnev squared up the US

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Air Force concluded that it urgently

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needed a replacement for its f15 an

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Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF that

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would have no equal as American planners

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start to develop the concept of air land

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battle to fight World War three the u.s.

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air force starts to think about the kind

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of equipment it wants to have when it

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comes time to fight the war at that time

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in the secretive black world of advanced

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aviation development one technology had

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emerged at the forefront of all military

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aircraft development stealth during that

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period the late 1970s of course in what

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we call the black world in the in the

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world of secret programs there was a

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great effort going on to come up with

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counters to these new Soviet weapon

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systems that could enable us to knock

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out their Sam system and that of course

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led to the development of the f-117

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analysis of air-to-air combat in Vietnam

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called

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the Red Baron study and kick-started the

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race for stealth an operational analysis

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study showed in Vietnam that most

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aircraft were killed by other aircraft

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that they hadn't seen so from this you

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get the idea that if the aircraft isn't

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seen it has a tremendous advantage

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air combat data from world war ii and

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korea had reinforced this need for

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invisibility

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so from this in a process of operational

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analysis the US Air Force learns that

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what you really need to do is be

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invisible to the enemy and that means

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that an aircraft is designed to be as

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near as possible invisible to an enemy

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fighter aircraft it's geometry is

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designed to give it a very low profile

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that is to make it very invisible to an

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oncoming fighter aircraft using

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high-frequency fighter aircraft radar

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the principle of stealth technology is

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to literally make an aeroplane invisible

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to the enemy an aircraft's shape must

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reflect incoming radio waves away from

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the enemy radar rather than towards it

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to further increase low observable

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characteristics an aeroplane is then

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covered in materials that absorb radar

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signals further reducing its visibility

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on a radar screen

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stealth doesn't mean invisible

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it just means less visible operational

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analysis shows that if you apply certain

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computer models to air-to-air combat the

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more stealthy aircraft the one that's

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harder to see is likely or to win

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leading the way in stealth technology

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was Lockheed skunkworks

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in the late 1970s tell wasn't widely

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known outside of a few companies the

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ability to integrate stealth technology

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shaping for stealth and the materials

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was really only well known in two

0:08:06.440,0:08:08.980
companies it was Lockheed and Northrop

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in 1977 amid unprecedented security

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Lockheed had flown a prototype of the

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world's first stealth fighter and by the

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1980s during Operation Just Cause its

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f-117 had helped to destroy general

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Noriega --zz regime in Panama now the US

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Air Force decided that any new fighter

0:08:35.479,0:08:37.849
must incorporate stealth technology and

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identified two other areas in which a

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future air superiority fighter should

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excel

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well at that stage of the game was clear

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that the Air Force wanted a stealthy

0:08:54.590,0:08:58.560
fighter it was also clear that they

0:08:58.560,0:09:00.870
wanted an airplane that would

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supercruise in other words run

0:09:02.990,0:09:05.970
supersonically without lighting off to

0:09:05.970,0:09:09.480
afterburners and they didn't want to

0:09:09.480,0:09:12.470
sacrifice any of the classic fighter

0:09:12.470,0:09:14.280
maneuverability so they wanted a fighter

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that besides all the new technology

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would maneuver as well or better than

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the f-15 in October 1982 representatives

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from fighter manufacturers met with the

0:09:27.600,0:09:30.000
US Air Force and began to identify the

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specific must-haves for the new fighter

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at the time there were eight contractors

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of built combat aircraft in the States

0:09:38.460,0:09:40.950
seven of those responded to a request

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for proposals from that period of 1983

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to 85 or 86 was a process of refinement

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you know narrowing down the specific

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parameters it must be a supersonic

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cruise aircraft with a combat radius of

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seven to nine hundred miles with reduced

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observables if possible the aircraft

0:10:01.530,0:10:02.970
would have to be able to operate on a

0:10:02.970,0:10:05.790
2,000 foot runway and must be easier to

0:10:05.790,0:10:08.770
maintain than an f-15

0:10:08.770,0:10:11.740
the challenge had been issued now it was

0:10:11.740,0:10:13.720
up to the finest aviation manufacturers

0:10:13.720,0:10:17.890
in the world to respond I'm a village

0:10:17.890,0:10:21.010
optimist and I have to say that the

0:10:21.010,0:10:23.980
requirements were very demanding but I

0:10:23.980,0:10:27.910
didn't have any I didn't have any strong

0:10:27.910,0:10:31.450
feeling that we couldn't do this the

0:10:31.450,0:10:33.610
Advanced Tactical Fighter program was

0:10:33.610,0:10:36.910
about to begin and the Raptor America's

0:10:36.910,0:10:39.760
fifth-generation fighter was about to be

0:10:39.760,0:10:52.990
hatched by 1983 us-soviet relations had

0:10:52.990,0:10:55.230
reached a new low

0:10:55.230,0:10:58.029
following Leonid Brezhnev's death the

0:10:58.029,0:11:01.149
Politburo now controlled by ex-kgb boss

0:11:01.149,0:11:03.520
yuri and drop off had been labeled by

0:11:03.520,0:11:06.250
reagan as the focus of evil in the

0:11:06.250,0:11:08.500
modern world

0:11:08.500,0:11:10.700
continuing his policy of rearmament

0:11:10.700,0:11:13.220
Reagan announced plans for the Strategic

0:11:13.220,0:11:16.340
Defense Initiative better known as Star

0:11:16.340,0:11:21.160
Wars and Moscow reacted furiously

0:11:22.360,0:11:26.110
publishing polar prodigy in a Russian

0:11:26.110,0:11:29.090
capoeira a marathon see a Kaboodle's

0:11:29.090,0:11:33.560
Nina gusta get their image legally not

0:11:33.560,0:11:35.750
August when Korean Airlines flight

0:11:35.750,0:11:37.970
double-oh-seven on its way to Seoul from

0:11:37.970,0:11:40.070
New York strayed several hundred miles

0:11:40.070,0:11:42.950
off course into Soviet airspace Russia

0:11:42.950,0:11:47.540
acted a fighter was sent up and the

0:11:47.540,0:11:50.450
civilian airliner with 269 people on

0:11:50.450,0:11:54.040
board was shot down

0:11:56.830,0:12:01.000
a shooting down of kaal double-oh-seven

0:12:01.000,0:12:02.920
sent shockwaves around the world

0:12:02.920,0:12:05.230
straining international relations almost

0:12:05.230,0:12:10.510
a breaking point but can we think of a

0:12:10.510,0:12:13.090
regime that so broadly trumpets its

0:12:13.090,0:12:15.310
vision of peace and global disarmament

0:12:15.310,0:12:18.730
and yet so callously and quickly commits

0:12:18.730,0:12:20.500
a terrorist act to sacrifice the lives

0:12:20.500,0:12:24.000
of innocent human beings

0:12:26.970,0:12:29.170
Regan's reaction to the crisis

0:12:29.170,0:12:31.030
strengthened u.s. conviction that

0:12:31.030,0:12:32.680
stealth would now be the prime

0:12:32.680,0:12:35.730
requirement for America's new feisty

0:12:35.730,0:12:38.320
some senior people the Pentagon looked

0:12:38.320,0:12:40.480
at the stealth requirements and decided

0:12:40.480,0:12:42.190
they were inadequate and they radically

0:12:42.190,0:12:45.010
changed him so the stealth became a

0:12:45.010,0:12:48.010
really major dominant requirement in the

0:12:48.010,0:12:52.120
program in this politically charged

0:12:52.120,0:12:54.550
climate the US Air Force created its

0:12:54.550,0:12:57.850
Advanced Tactical Fighter or ATF system

0:12:57.850,0:13:00.370
program office based at wright-patterson

0:13:00.370,0:13:03.790
Air Force Base in Ohio Colonel Albert CP

0:13:03.790,0:13:05.680
Carrillo is placed in charge of the

0:13:05.680,0:13:08.020
division one of the things we really

0:13:08.020,0:13:10.360
wanted was the ability to leverage

0:13:10.360,0:13:13.060
stealth in a high-performance fighter

0:13:13.060,0:13:15.430
and we also wanted this high-performance

0:13:15.430,0:13:17.800
fighter to still be capable of good

0:13:17.800,0:13:19.450
clothes in within visual range

0:13:19.450,0:13:23.110
maneuvering capability in fact we wanted

0:13:23.110,0:13:24.970
more than just existing capability in

0:13:24.970,0:13:28.930
something the manufacturers are invited

0:13:28.930,0:13:31.060
to submit concepts for an aircraft with

0:13:31.060,0:13:33.280
an operational radius of 800 miles

0:13:33.280,0:13:35.680
enough to allow it to operate over the

0:13:35.680,0:13:37.810
entire central region of Europe from

0:13:37.810,0:13:40.540
bases in central England it should have

0:13:40.540,0:13:43.090
low observable characteristics and be

0:13:43.090,0:13:45.760
able to cruise at Mach 1 point 5 for an

0:13:45.760,0:13:49.380
astonishing 600 miles

0:13:49.880,0:13:52.220
we weren't building an airplane for the

0:13:52.220,0:13:53.990
1990s although that was what we were

0:13:53.990,0:13:55.850
trying to do we were really building a

0:13:55.850,0:13:57.560
fighter for the 21st century that could

0:13:57.560,0:14:00.500
take on all of the advanced threats that

0:14:00.500,0:14:02.630
the Soviet Union was likely to throw in

0:14:02.630,0:14:05.600
itself all of the teams would have their

0:14:05.600,0:14:06.770
work cut out for them

0:14:06.770,0:14:09.260
but importantly the military added

0:14:09.260,0:14:14.360
another complicating factor at the end

0:14:14.360,0:14:16.370
of the concept demonstration phase the

0:14:16.370,0:14:18.550
decision was made by the Air Force to

0:14:18.550,0:14:21.830
launch a demonstration validation phase

0:14:21.830,0:14:23.540
of the program that would involve

0:14:23.540,0:14:27.470
building to flight demonstrators YF type

0:14:27.470,0:14:30.640
airplanes that would then be evaluated

0:14:30.640,0:14:33.110
they didn't after that full armament

0:14:33.110,0:14:34.610
they didn't have to have avionics they

0:14:34.610,0:14:36.950
didn't have to have stealth coatings but

0:14:36.950,0:14:38.810
essentially they were going to go out

0:14:38.810,0:14:42.770
show us what you can do but building

0:14:42.770,0:14:45.710
prototype aircraft is expensive and no

0:14:45.710,0:14:47.540
one manufacturer could afford it on

0:14:47.540,0:14:49.720
their own

0:14:50.140,0:14:53.200
they all know that they must invest so

0:14:53.200,0:14:57.130
much money and developing that if they

0:14:57.130,0:15:01.210
don't get the contract they're going to

0:15:01.210,0:15:04.120
be so out of pocket it's gonna hurt the

0:15:04.120,0:15:06.990
company badly

0:15:07.060,0:15:10.450
we Lockheed made a policy decision at

0:15:10.450,0:15:12.790
the CEO level that we would seek teaming

0:15:12.790,0:15:15.670
so the bottom line is we ended up

0:15:15.670,0:15:18.910
deciding that we would team with Boeing

0:15:18.910,0:15:22.390
and General Dynamics Fort Worth each

0:15:22.390,0:15:24.670
manufacturer would submit a design for

0:15:24.670,0:15:27.580
the demonstration valuation or Denville

0:15:27.580,0:15:29.860
competition but had agreed that the

0:15:29.860,0:15:31.390
winning company would be the prime

0:15:31.390,0:15:33.390
contractor and its partners

0:15:33.390,0:15:35.140
subcontracted to produce major

0:15:35.140,0:15:37.320
components

0:15:37.320,0:15:39.670
everybody's investment will be at least

0:15:39.670,0:15:42.550
partly repaid because everybody gets

0:15:42.550,0:15:46.810
piece of the action seven designs for

0:15:46.810,0:15:48.730
the Air Force competition was submitted

0:15:48.730,0:15:53.800
for final evaluation all of the seven

0:15:53.800,0:15:55.420
contractors came in with designs that

0:15:55.420,0:15:56.980
were very feasible and it could that

0:15:56.980,0:15:58.870
could have been built the question was

0:15:58.870,0:16:01.660
which were the best and then how did we

0:16:01.660,0:16:03.280
determined that they really were good

0:16:03.280,0:16:07.960
enough to manufacturers with strong

0:16:07.960,0:16:09.720
experience in stealth technology

0:16:09.720,0:16:13.480
Northrop with its b2

0:16:13.480,0:16:19.769
and Lockheed with its f-117 lead the way

0:16:20.279,0:16:22.959
northrop's Advanced Tactical Fighter or

0:16:22.959,0:16:25.689
ATF design was for an alien looking

0:16:25.689,0:16:28.540
aircraft with diamond planform wings and

0:16:28.540,0:16:31.869
huge V tails it was a design that

0:16:31.869,0:16:35.920
stressed speed and stealth Northrop came

0:16:35.920,0:16:38.709
in with a an airplane that really from

0:16:38.709,0:16:40.809
the very beginning look just like the Y

0:16:40.809,0:16:43.860
of 23 that eventually was built as well

0:16:43.860,0:16:46.239
Lockheed's entry echoed that of the

0:16:46.239,0:16:50.019
f-117 it's vectored thrust Arrowhead

0:16:50.019,0:16:53.230
shape trapezoidal wings and four tails

0:16:53.230,0:16:55.089
ensure that the aircraft would be

0:16:55.089,0:16:59.949
maneuverable the fact was that Lockheed

0:16:59.949,0:17:02.049
and Northrop had significant advantages

0:17:02.049,0:17:05.500
in the fact that they had built stealth

0:17:05.500,0:17:07.750
aircraft and flown them it's big

0:17:07.750,0:17:10.270
credibility factor there

0:17:10.270,0:17:14.650
on October 31st 1986 both Lockheed and

0:17:14.650,0:17:17.230
Northrop ATF designs were declared the

0:17:17.230,0:17:19.480
winners of the competition under the

0:17:19.480,0:17:21.880
terms of the dem val competition each

0:17:21.880,0:17:25.920
team would build two aircraft

0:17:26.510,0:17:29.299
at the end of the process one of two

0:17:29.299,0:17:31.280
designs would become America's new

0:17:31.280,0:17:34.640
Advanced Tactical Fighter costing

0:17:34.640,0:17:36.860
billions of dollars the new fighter

0:17:36.860,0:17:39.350
would make a technological leap into the

0:17:39.350,0:17:46.160
21st century just nine months after

0:17:46.160,0:17:48.559
being selected to build to demonstration

0:17:48.559,0:17:50.770
valuation fighters for the US Air Force

0:17:50.770,0:17:53.480
Lockheed shocked everyone and scrapped

0:17:53.480,0:18:01.280
its original design in July of 87 we

0:18:01.280,0:18:03.710
looked at our design at that time and we

0:18:03.710,0:18:05.030
looked at what we thought it would weigh

0:18:05.030,0:18:08.510
and how it would perform and with no

0:18:08.510,0:18:11.799
input from the Air Force we decided to

0:18:11.799,0:18:16.309
start over so between July 13th of 87

0:18:16.309,0:18:20.690
and mid-october that year basically

0:18:20.690,0:18:24.110
that's where the f-22 came into the

0:18:24.110,0:18:27.080
world in a hectic three-month process

0:18:27.080,0:18:29.360
with help from its partners lockheed

0:18:29.360,0:18:30.760
produced a completely different

0:18:30.760,0:18:33.940
configuration with a clipped delta wing

0:18:33.940,0:18:37.179
we changed to clip diamond wings which

0:18:37.179,0:18:41.090
gave us almost the same aerodynamic

0:18:41.090,0:18:42.860
performance but a lot lower structural

0:18:42.860,0:18:45.169
weight we did the same thing with the

0:18:45.169,0:18:47.960
trapezoidal horizontal tails and the

0:18:47.960,0:18:50.720
same thing with the verticals

0:18:50.720,0:18:53.510
over the next four years at a cost of

0:18:53.510,0:18:56.210
just over two billion dollars America's

0:18:56.210,0:18:58.190
tactical fighter competition became the

0:18:58.190,0:19:01.290
largest program of its kind

0:19:01.290,0:19:04.710
and in 1990 just months after the

0:19:04.710,0:19:07.110
disintegration of the Soviet Union the

0:19:07.110,0:19:09.540
shapes of the two rival designs were

0:19:09.540,0:19:13.110
finally unveiled and now ladies and

0:19:13.110,0:19:15.870
gentlemen I proudly present to you the

0:19:15.870,0:19:19.110
yf-22 a prototype for US air superiority

0:19:19.110,0:19:22.820
in the 21st century

0:19:30.230,0:19:33.260
on behalf of the entire team I am

0:19:33.260,0:19:37.210
honored to present the yf-23

0:19:44.350,0:19:47.560
Northrop's version called the yf-23

0:19:47.560,0:19:51.100
closely resembled its original design

0:19:51.100,0:19:53.450
well it was the most unusual looking at

0:19:53.450,0:19:57.380
very futuristic it had twin details as

0:19:57.380,0:19:58.970
opposed to what's called a cruciform

0:19:58.970,0:20:00.980
twin verticals and twin horizontals I

0:20:00.980,0:20:04.790
had a large trapezoidal wing and it had

0:20:04.790,0:20:07.010
a very slender shape and looked at for

0:20:07.010,0:20:10.910
me a John view in contrast Lockheed's

0:20:10.910,0:20:13.850
design called the yf-22 seemed

0:20:13.850,0:20:16.340
surprisingly conventional with four tail

0:20:16.340,0:20:19.610
surfaces vectored thrust a broad solid

0:20:19.610,0:20:23.210
body and a conventional wing but unlike

0:20:23.210,0:20:25.340
Lockheed's other stealth aircraft the

0:20:25.340,0:20:28.880
f-117 radar absorbent materials were not

0:20:28.880,0:20:31.550
applied over the whole of the FA 22 but

0:20:31.550,0:20:34.520
used selectively on its edges cavities

0:20:34.520,0:20:38.650
and crucial surface areas

0:20:40.730,0:20:42.740
you walk around the airplane everywhere

0:20:42.740,0:20:45.440
you look about what you see is something

0:20:45.440,0:20:48.110
that's designed to do the job in the

0:20:48.110,0:20:50.410
most efficient and effective way and no

0:20:50.410,0:20:55.820
wasted space no wasted capability it's

0:20:55.820,0:20:58.490
truly an airplane it's intended and has

0:20:58.490,0:21:02.590
been optimized for its job

0:21:03.790,0:21:07.570
the f-22 carries its weapons internally

0:21:07.570,0:21:10.010
for weapons bays are hidden in the

0:21:10.010,0:21:13.160
central mid-body section six missiles

0:21:13.160,0:21:14.840
can be carried in the ventral Bay's

0:21:14.840,0:21:18.169
which are covered with bi-fold doors the

0:21:18.169,0:21:20.780
side bays will each hold one Sidewinder

0:21:20.780,0:21:23.590
missile carried on a trapeze launcher

0:21:23.590,0:21:26.750
the mid-body section also houses the

0:21:26.750,0:21:29.240
fighters landing gear and complex in met

0:21:29.240,0:21:34.070
ducts right from day one on the f-22 we

0:21:34.070,0:21:36.880
decided to put s-shaped

0:21:36.880,0:21:39.590
Inlet ducts on it so the airplane is

0:21:39.590,0:21:41.780
built with s-shape Inlet ducts so that

0:21:41.780,0:21:45.980
there's no way a radar is ever seeing

0:21:45.980,0:21:49.200
the forward face of the jet engine

0:21:49.200,0:21:51.720
attached to the mid-body is the four

0:21:51.720,0:21:53.789
body which accommodates the cockpit and

0:21:53.789,0:21:58.889
advanced avionics both the yf-23 and the

0:21:58.889,0:22:01.740
yf-22 are impressive-looking machines

0:22:01.740,0:22:04.679
but their performance still needs to be

0:22:04.679,0:22:07.620
tested the most crucial stage of the

0:22:07.620,0:22:10.679
competition is still to come the flight

0:22:10.679,0:22:13.190
testing

0:22:19.620,0:22:22.750
Northrop was first in the air in August

0:22:22.750,0:22:26.590
1990 flown by Paul Metz the yf-23 got

0:22:26.590,0:22:28.980
airborne

0:22:48.759,0:22:56.359
the test was a huge success but Lockheed

0:22:56.359,0:22:58.730
was quick to respond and on September

0:22:58.730,0:23:00.889
the 29th at Edwards Air Force Base in

0:23:00.889,0:23:01.909
California

0:23:01.909,0:23:04.340
Lockheed chief test pilot Dave Ferguson

0:23:04.340,0:23:06.649
prepared the raptor for its maiden

0:23:06.649,0:23:13.970
flight I pulled on her runway and looked

0:23:13.970,0:23:16.039
down the runway it was just a feeling of

0:23:16.039,0:23:17.779
really relief and that we're going to do

0:23:17.779,0:23:22.879
it and I ran the airplane up to 80%

0:23:22.879,0:23:26.049
military power

0:23:26.830,0:23:30.340
and acceleration was just amazing I mean

0:23:30.340,0:23:34.230
it was like an f15 in full afterburner

0:23:39.160,0:23:41.050
and I thought the only thing in this

0:23:41.050,0:23:42.730
airplane that's ever flown before it was

0:23:42.730,0:23:44.920
me and I think in the back of my mind I

0:23:44.920,0:23:46.990
was saying please fly please fly when I

0:23:46.990,0:23:48.790
pulled your nose up and it just lifted

0:23:48.790,0:23:50.910
off

0:24:09.830,0:24:13.519
I was fully aware we had a wonderful

0:24:13.519,0:24:16.490
flying airplane and the handling

0:24:16.490,0:24:18.500
qualities in the takeoff and landing

0:24:18.500,0:24:20.299
their power approach as we call it were

0:24:20.299,0:24:27.080
just absolutely superb when I landed in

0:24:27.080,0:24:29.419
Sherman at the airplane I said hey boss

0:24:29.419,0:24:33.230
we really have a winner here the way the

0:24:33.230,0:24:35.480
f-22 performed was no surprise to

0:24:35.480,0:24:37.730
anybody who was involved in the program

0:24:37.730,0:24:41.299
not at all I mean my money has been on

0:24:41.299,0:24:46.279
the f-22 from early 1985 it'll be there

0:24:46.279,0:24:50.630
till I'm gone over the next three months

0:24:50.630,0:24:53.120
the Raptor underwent a whole series of

0:24:53.120,0:24:56.360
tests the Air Force required both teams

0:24:56.360,0:24:59.200
to give them performance projections and

0:24:59.200,0:25:01.519
then they were going to actually compare

0:25:01.519,0:25:02.720
that with what the airplanes actually

0:25:02.720,0:25:05.059
did in flight subsonic supersonic at

0:25:05.059,0:25:07.470
different altitudes and so forth

0:25:07.470,0:25:09.600
the winner of this stage would earn a

0:25:09.600,0:25:14.039
contract for 650 aircraft the decision

0:25:14.039,0:25:15.690
would hinge not just on what the

0:25:15.690,0:25:17.820
contractors promised but on the Air

0:25:17.820,0:25:19.769
Force's confidence in their ability to

0:25:19.769,0:25:21.710
deliver

0:25:21.710,0:25:25.280
we expected to get a lot of flying done

0:25:25.280,0:25:28.220
in the 90 days we actually got 72

0:25:28.220,0:25:30.350
flights out of two airplanes in 90 days

0:25:30.350,0:25:37.030
and that is about as good as you can do

0:25:37.030,0:25:39.950
during flight testing the Raptor had

0:25:39.950,0:25:43.190
beaten northrop yf-23 in a number of

0:25:43.190,0:25:46.690
crucial performance areas

0:25:48.180,0:25:50.880
we'd focused on the supersonic testing

0:25:50.880,0:25:54.120
including super cruising and we did

0:25:54.120,0:25:55.740
something that Northrop didn't do and

0:25:55.740,0:25:57.120
that is we did launch a couple of

0:25:57.120,0:26:00.450
missiles we launched a Sidewinder out of

0:26:00.450,0:26:02.880
the internal side bay on our prototype

0:26:02.880,0:26:05.000
airplanes and we launched an AM Ram

0:26:05.000,0:26:07.680
long-range air-to-air missile out of the

0:26:07.680,0:26:12.900
internal web space the yf-22 had clearly

0:26:12.900,0:26:14.760
shown that in every category

0:26:14.760,0:26:17.010
it was far superior to any existing

0:26:17.010,0:26:22.020
fighter the Air Force was was very

0:26:22.020,0:26:23.910
impressed by what Lockheed had done

0:26:23.910,0:26:25.290
their flight test program was very

0:26:25.290,0:26:29.700
aggressive they flew hard and fast they

0:26:29.700,0:26:32.040
flew many more hours and sorties than

0:26:32.040,0:26:34.170
Northrop did and all of that gave the

0:26:34.170,0:26:35.850
Air Force confidence that they knew what

0:26:35.850,0:26:37.830
they were doing high confidence and they

0:26:37.830,0:26:41.390
could build a superior airplane

0:26:43.770,0:26:47.440
but it would be events in 1991 that

0:26:47.440,0:26:51.300
would carve out the Raptors future

0:26:53.970,0:26:56.830
22 minutes after midnight on January the

0:26:56.830,0:26:58.740
17th 1991

0:26:58.740,0:27:02.740
Lockheed's stealth f-117 spearheaded

0:27:02.740,0:27:04.660
u.s. stripes against Saddam Hussein's

0:27:04.660,0:27:09.010
regime the performance of Lockheed

0:27:09.010,0:27:11.110
stealth bombers during Operation Desert

0:27:11.110,0:27:13.600
Storm would give the company and its

0:27:13.600,0:27:16.090
aircraft some priceless publicity

0:27:16.090,0:27:21.850
I think clearly Lockheed was benefited

0:27:21.850,0:27:25.570
in 1991 by the Gulf War where the f-117

0:27:25.570,0:27:28.210
was it was a star performer and there

0:27:28.210,0:27:31.720
were skeptics of stealth even as late as

0:27:31.720,0:27:35.920
that that had to be beneficial to the

0:27:35.920,0:27:39.970
program but another aircraft also

0:27:39.970,0:27:42.190
emerged from the Gulf War with a glowing

0:27:42.190,0:27:44.670
reputation

0:27:44.700,0:27:46.760
you

0:27:49.350,0:27:52.870
the f-15 the aircraft destined to be

0:27:52.870,0:27:55.390
replaced by the ATF had emphatically

0:27:55.390,0:27:57.730
confirmed its status as the foremost air

0:27:57.730,0:28:02.710
superiority fighter in the world now it

0:28:02.710,0:28:04.180
appeared that the need for an advanced

0:28:04.180,0:28:06.940
stealthy fighter the f-22 might be

0:28:06.940,0:28:10.540
totally unfounded it's all like the f-15

0:28:10.540,0:28:13.510
wasn't any good it's good aircraft it's

0:28:13.510,0:28:16.030
still a good aircraft it will be a good

0:28:16.030,0:28:18.340
aircraft for years to come you could

0:28:18.340,0:28:20.260
even just chew up the factory and keep

0:28:20.260,0:28:22.240
building new f50 - why not

0:28:22.240,0:28:25.690
yeah but not everyone agrees the big

0:28:25.690,0:28:28.600
weakness in their argument is they are

0:28:28.600,0:28:30.100
making a statement about world

0:28:30.100,0:28:32.320
conditions today and what the threats

0:28:32.320,0:28:34.870
are today the real issue is what

0:28:34.870,0:28:39.010
capability you want for 2025 or 2030 the

0:28:39.010,0:28:41.350
people who say you don't need this they

0:28:41.350,0:28:42.880
think the world is not going to change

0:28:42.880,0:28:45.880
in the next 20 years and that is a hell

0:28:45.880,0:28:51.010
of an assertion by April 1991 bogged

0:28:51.010,0:28:54.100
down by the f-15 debate the US Air Force

0:28:54.100,0:28:56.200
prepares to announce the winner of the

0:28:56.200,0:28:59.020
Advanced Tactical Fighter contract but

0:28:59.020,0:29:01.060
would the Raptor emerge from the

0:29:01.060,0:29:04.770
controversy unscathed

0:29:10.760,0:29:15.240
on April the 1st 1991 the US Air Force

0:29:15.240,0:29:17.580
awarded a nine and a half billion dollar

0:29:17.580,0:29:20.040
contract to the Lockheed Boeing General

0:29:20.040,0:29:22.380
Dynamics team responsible for the

0:29:22.380,0:29:27.570
winning f-22 Raptor design having won

0:29:27.570,0:29:29.610
the contract Lockheed announced that it

0:29:29.610,0:29:31.650
intended to locate the f-22 s

0:29:31.650,0:29:33.690
headquarters in Georgia where the

0:29:33.690,0:29:36.559
Raptors forward fuselage would be built

0:29:36.559,0:29:39.510
General Dynamics were build the f-22s

0:29:39.510,0:29:42.200
mid-body section in Fort Worth Texas and

0:29:42.200,0:29:44.669
Boeing would manufacture the wings and

0:29:44.669,0:29:48.679
tail in Seattle Washington

0:29:51.180,0:29:53.640
but just eight months after the contract

0:29:53.640,0:29:55.830
was awarded the program hit its first

0:29:55.830,0:29:59.930
major snag we lost one of the yf-22

0:29:59.930,0:30:02.100
fortunately the test pilot who was a

0:30:02.100,0:30:03.750
good friend of mine then and now walked

0:30:03.750,0:30:09.150
away unharmed during preliminary testing

0:30:09.150,0:30:10.650
the unthinkable happened

0:30:10.650,0:30:14.730
a yf-22 flown by Tom Morgan fell crashed

0:30:14.730,0:30:18.050
just after takeoff

0:30:19.500,0:30:22.809
as this unique footage shows the

0:30:22.809,0:30:24.460
aircraft's thrust vectoring system

0:30:24.460,0:30:29.220
forces it to belly land on the runway a

0:30:29.280,0:30:32.530
key element of the Raptors design thrust

0:30:32.530,0:30:34.960
vectoring uses movable exhaust nozzles

0:30:34.960,0:30:37.179
to alter the angle of thrust from the

0:30:37.179,0:30:39.860
two Pratt & Whitney engines

0:30:39.860,0:30:43.400
as the Raptor makes its low-level flyby

0:30:43.400,0:30:46.040
Tom Morgan felt keeps the stick forward

0:30:46.040,0:30:49.130
to keep the nose down but as the landing

0:30:49.130,0:30:51.440
gear is retracted the thrust vectoring

0:30:51.440,0:30:54.110
engages and pushes the aircraft towards

0:30:54.110,0:30:56.450
the tarmac as the pilot struggles to

0:30:56.450,0:30:58.370
correct this change in direction the

0:30:58.370,0:31:05.600
Raptor C soars the fundamental error

0:31:05.600,0:31:07.309
there had nothing to do with the

0:31:07.309,0:31:09.650
airplane it had to do with the fact that

0:31:09.650,0:31:13.070
you don't fly a green airplane and fly

0:31:13.070,0:31:15.740
it at low speeds at low altitudes the

0:31:15.740,0:31:17.990
cause of that accident was stupidity on

0:31:17.990,0:31:19.370
the part of the management it had

0:31:19.370,0:31:21.880
nothing to do with technology

0:31:21.880,0:31:24.080
despite the loss of the stealth aircraft

0:31:24.080,0:31:28.929
the program had achieved its major goals

0:31:29.210,0:31:32.690
ten million man-hours of analysis four

0:31:32.690,0:31:34.760
thousand hours of radar testing and

0:31:34.760,0:31:37.340
hundreds of hours of flight testing had

0:31:37.340,0:31:38.660
gone into the development of the

0:31:38.660,0:31:41.240
aircraft even before construction was

0:31:41.240,0:31:43.990
given the going

0:31:44.230,0:31:48.020
in fact the f-22 has accomplished more

0:31:48.020,0:31:50.330
flight testing than any other fighter

0:31:50.330,0:31:55.730
prior to full-scale production the first

0:31:55.730,0:31:58.789
fa20 to built for the US Air Force was

0:31:58.789,0:32:01.299
unveiled in a ceremony on April the 9th

0:32:01.299,0:32:04.010
1997 at the company's headquarters in

0:32:04.010,0:32:06.760
Marietta Georgia

0:32:09.570,0:32:12.129
now Air Force pilots would get the

0:32:12.129,0:32:13.840
opportunity to check up the new aircraft

0:32:13.840,0:32:19.179
for themselves I would call the Raptor

0:32:19.179,0:32:20.830
the Miss America while aircraft it's got

0:32:20.830,0:32:22.419
the talent it's got the bikini contest

0:32:22.419,0:32:24.940
one it's beautiful it's got all the

0:32:24.940,0:32:26.980
capabilities it really wins the show in

0:32:26.980,0:32:30.340
every aspect the airplane is eye

0:32:30.340,0:32:33.669
watering it it does everything the pilot

0:32:33.669,0:32:36.700
asked of it and it is very good at what

0:32:36.700,0:32:40.529
it does first flown by the Air Force in

0:32:40.529,0:32:43.539
1997 pilots at Edwards Air Force Base

0:32:43.539,0:32:46.450
have surpassed 2,000 flight test hours

0:32:46.450,0:32:50.309
in more than 900 missions

0:32:54.130,0:32:57.400
the first time I went out one effe 22 me

0:32:57.400,0:33:02.350
against four f-16s and they told me what

0:33:02.350,0:33:03.490
they were going to do they were going to

0:33:03.490,0:33:05.890
do everything possible to defeat my

0:33:05.890,0:33:09.850
systems and I watched exactly what they

0:33:09.850,0:33:13.500
did the entire time and shot them all

0:33:14.630,0:33:16.640
it was almost too easy now it's almost

0:33:16.640,0:33:19.750
laughing in the cockpit

0:33:20.410,0:33:23.240
one of the key advances in the Raptors

0:33:23.240,0:33:25.730
design is its advanced cockpit and

0:33:25.730,0:33:31.190
integrated avionics systems but I think

0:33:31.190,0:33:32.840
really where the Raptor gets its amazing

0:33:32.840,0:33:35.630
capability is the fusion of all of the

0:33:35.630,0:33:37.190
different sensors on the aircraft you

0:33:37.190,0:33:39.830
have a tactical scope that combines the

0:33:39.830,0:33:41.390
information of all the other sensors on

0:33:41.390,0:33:43.310
the aircraft into one display for the

0:33:43.310,0:33:45.620
pilot so as a pilot you don't have to

0:33:45.620,0:33:48.350
sort through the radar or another sensor

0:33:48.350,0:33:49.640
to see what's going on around you

0:33:49.640,0:33:52.160
information this power and the way this

0:33:52.160,0:33:54.050
airplane displays information to you it

0:33:54.050,0:33:55.250
gives you knowledge of the battlespace

0:33:55.250,0:33:57.740
it's all about seeing what's out there

0:33:57.740,0:33:59.180
in front of you and being able to make

0:33:59.180,0:34:01.370
decisions about what to engage when to

0:34:01.370,0:34:04.310
engage and how to engage it I'd say

0:34:04.310,0:34:07.490
integrated avionics does two things for

0:34:07.490,0:34:07.820
me

0:34:07.820,0:34:10.400
number one it makes me a lot safer it

0:34:10.400,0:34:13.159
gives me less chance to crash my jet it

0:34:13.159,0:34:15.380
also makes every pilot who flies this

0:34:15.380,0:34:17.900
aircraft more deadly instead of having

0:34:17.900,0:34:20.659
to do six or eight steps to achieve a

0:34:20.659,0:34:24.699
kill you really only have to do one

0:34:25.040,0:34:28.070
the raptor carries a formidable array of

0:34:28.070,0:34:33.918
ordnance all of the Raptors weapons are

0:34:33.918,0:34:36.980
housed inside the aircraft two bays at

0:34:36.980,0:34:38.780
the bottom of the plane utilize a

0:34:38.780,0:34:41.300
pneumatic style hydraulic launcher that

0:34:41.300,0:34:43.159
literally punched the missiles or

0:34:43.159,0:34:45.830
Jaden's out of the aircraft with a force

0:34:45.830,0:34:51.168
of 40 G and to side Bay's how's

0:34:51.168,0:34:54.139
air-to-air missiles here a trapeze

0:34:54.139,0:34:56.210
launcher moves the missile outside the

0:34:56.210,0:34:58.580
airframe very rapidly a fraction of a

0:34:58.580,0:35:02.050
second before the missile is fired and

0:35:02.050,0:35:04.700
to complement the Raptors armament of

0:35:04.700,0:35:07.040
eight missiles the fighter also has a

0:35:07.040,0:35:10.160
gun at one point in the evolution of the

0:35:10.160,0:35:12.680
advanced tactical fighter program the US

0:35:12.680,0:35:14.360
Air Force had raised the question of

0:35:14.360,0:35:18.370
eliminating the gun to save weight

0:35:19.270,0:35:22.210
I think that the designers of the FA 22

0:35:22.210,0:35:24.520
realized mistakes of the past like the F

0:35:24.520,0:35:26.350
for initially being designed without a

0:35:26.350,0:35:28.240
gun and realize that you should never

0:35:28.240,0:35:30.760
say never about a threat that you're

0:35:30.760,0:35:32.170
going to face or a situation you're

0:35:32.170,0:35:34.000
gonna find yourself in and so the raptor

0:35:34.000,0:35:36.400
has designed itself a gun will anybody

0:35:36.400,0:35:38.110
get close enough for us to use the gun

0:35:38.110,0:35:41.500
well hopefully not probably not by the

0:35:41.500,0:35:44.230
late 90s pilots in the Raptor program

0:35:44.230,0:35:46.240
were convinced that their aircraft was

0:35:46.240,0:35:48.850
made of the right stuff that would

0:35:48.850,0:35:51.070
easily be able to outperform and destroy

0:35:51.070,0:35:54.030
any other fighter in existence

0:35:54.030,0:35:56.370
it is the sum of the parts that makes

0:35:56.370,0:35:59.460
the FA 22 so capable probably most

0:35:59.460,0:36:01.670
important in my eyes is the stealth

0:36:01.670,0:36:05.130
having an aircraft that nobody can see

0:36:05.130,0:36:07.560
is just a tremendous tremendous

0:36:07.560,0:36:10.920
advantage the speed the maneuverability

0:36:10.920,0:36:14.370
the precision all those factors are

0:36:14.370,0:36:16.560
incredible also so when you put

0:36:16.560,0:36:18.720
everything together the Raptor is just

0:36:18.720,0:36:20.940
incredible

0:36:20.940,0:36:23.790
but this belief was exclusively based on

0:36:23.790,0:36:26.040
controlled flight and missile firing

0:36:26.040,0:36:29.670
exercises what the Raptors pilots really

0:36:29.670,0:36:32.819
needed was combat experience and they

0:36:32.819,0:36:37.650
were about to get it before the FA 22

0:36:37.650,0:36:40.020
Raptor enters operational service with

0:36:40.020,0:36:42.750
the US Air Force in the autumn of 2005

0:36:42.750,0:36:45.089
it will have completed thousands of

0:36:45.089,0:36:48.600
hours of vigorous combat testing

0:36:48.600,0:36:51.880
but since Desert Storm critics of the

0:36:51.880,0:36:54.820
f-22 program claim that the f-15 Eagle

0:36:54.820,0:36:57.160
destined to be replaced by the Raptor

0:36:57.160,0:36:59.740
already has the attributes necessary to

0:36:59.740,0:37:01.420
remain the world's pre-eminent air

0:37:01.420,0:37:03.970
superiority fighter well into the new

0:37:03.970,0:37:06.180
millennium

0:37:11.170,0:37:16.050
it is a view dismissed by the US efforts

0:37:16.050,0:37:20.880
if you look at the f-15 the f-18 and

0:37:20.880,0:37:24.330
compare it with existing fighters that

0:37:24.330,0:37:27.600
are sold around the world today you'll

0:37:27.600,0:37:29.700
find that today we're almost at Perry if

0:37:29.700,0:37:32.510
we ever run up against an enemy that has

0:37:32.510,0:37:35.940
the ability in terms of the aircrew to

0:37:35.940,0:37:39.390
use those enemy fighters we will have a

0:37:39.390,0:37:43.040
tough time with the current generation

0:37:43.520,0:37:46.200
the f-15 is a great aircraft and in

0:37:46.200,0:37:47.970
air-to-air it is outstanding however

0:37:47.970,0:37:50.490
with the production of new fighters that

0:37:50.490,0:37:53.370
are being produced today and also some

0:37:53.370,0:37:55.290
service to air threats there are

0:37:55.290,0:37:57.090
situations in the f-15 that would make

0:37:57.090,0:37:59.420
me nervous

0:38:03.200,0:38:08.190
in March 2003 supporters of the f-15 got

0:38:08.190,0:38:10.170
the opportunity to see whether or not

0:38:10.170,0:38:12.120
the eagle was still the best fighter in

0:38:12.120,0:38:21.300
the sky five f-15s would go head-to-head

0:38:21.300,0:38:24.830
with a single Raptor

0:38:25.530,0:38:27.940
although no missiles would be used

0:38:27.940,0:38:30.220
during the exercise the sorties would

0:38:30.220,0:38:33.310
closely resemble actual combat no

0:38:33.310,0:38:35.700
quarter would be given by either side

0:38:35.700,0:38:38.800
this was a kill-or-be-killed

0:38:38.800,0:38:42.190
exercise there were five of us Ares in

0:38:42.190,0:38:45.160
and me and my biggest concern was

0:38:45.160,0:38:47.940
running out of weapons too soon

0:38:47.940,0:38:51.460
all five f-15s are flown by experienced

0:38:51.460,0:38:55.540
f-22 pilots one by one the rapt brings

0:38:55.540,0:39:00.340
them down I could never see them I never

0:39:00.340,0:39:02.980
knew that they were there and I died you

0:39:02.980,0:39:05.310
got stuck

0:39:05.980,0:39:08.170
roll up I could hear him on the radio

0:39:08.170,0:39:10.869
calling his simulated missile shots Fox

0:39:10.869,0:39:15.250
tube and knowing that this was getting

0:39:15.250,0:39:16.869
really unnerving because I could also

0:39:16.869,0:39:19.150
tell his range was was closing rapidly

0:39:19.150,0:39:26.740
on me I don't think anybody ever saw me

0:39:26.740,0:39:27.609
the entire time

0:39:27.609,0:39:29.550
that while we were on the air space

0:39:29.550,0:39:32.970
bandit bandit

0:39:32.990,0:39:35.450
could not find him no matter what I did

0:39:35.450,0:39:37.280
and the next time was when he flew

0:39:37.280,0:39:38.480
directly over the top of my hair from my

0:39:38.480,0:39:41.320
soaring vision

0:39:42.860,0:39:45.110
I know firsthand from flying the Raptor

0:39:45.110,0:39:46.700
against other aircraft and flying other

0:39:46.700,0:39:49.280
aircraft against the Raptor that it's

0:39:49.280,0:39:52.330
like clubbing baby seals it's so easy

0:39:52.330,0:39:54.830
the first indication you have that the

0:39:54.830,0:39:58.040
net pay 22 is out in your area of

0:39:58.040,0:40:00.080
responsibility is when you are in your

0:40:00.080,0:40:02.000
parachute heading down towards earth and

0:40:02.000,0:40:03.380
your your jet is falling a little bit

0:40:03.380,0:40:06.130
faster than you are

0:40:06.670,0:40:10.810
in combat testing with f-15s the fa 22

0:40:10.810,0:40:12.790
Raptor has emphatically proven its

0:40:12.790,0:40:15.300
doubters wrong

0:40:15.900,0:40:17.880
there been times when the rapture has

0:40:17.880,0:40:22.230
gone up to vs. 8 against f15 and it ends

0:40:22.230,0:40:24.539
up being boring for the adversaries

0:40:24.539,0:40:27.079
because no matter what they do they die

0:40:27.079,0:40:29.700
having flown the f-15 and now having

0:40:29.700,0:40:32.250
flown the Raptor and seeing combat I

0:40:32.250,0:40:33.270
would not want to be on the receiving

0:40:33.270,0:40:37.140
end of what the fa 23 was capable we

0:40:37.140,0:40:39.599
will take on anything any combination of

0:40:39.599,0:40:43.020
the latest the latest aircraft that we

0:40:43.020,0:40:44.789
can throw it ourselves and we usually

0:40:44.789,0:40:52.079
win today 27 fa 22 Raptors have been

0:40:52.079,0:40:54.450
delivered to the US air force and are in

0:40:54.450,0:40:56.849
limited operation at Edwards Nellis and

0:40:56.849,0:41:01.410
Tyndall Air Force bases many more will

0:41:01.410,0:41:03.359
follow

0:41:03.359,0:41:05.920
the air force has agreed to a final

0:41:05.920,0:41:08.730
production run of almost 300 aircraft I

0:41:08.730,0:41:13.450
think 300 FA 20s will tip the scales of

0:41:13.450,0:41:16.090
any conflict in our favor I think that

0:41:16.090,0:41:20.170
any country who sees 300 FA 22s flying

0:41:20.170,0:41:21.820
towards it has got to get a little

0:41:21.820,0:41:24.000
nervous

0:41:24.000,0:41:26.140
Lockheed expects that a full production

0:41:26.140,0:41:28.750
rate of 60 aircraft per year will have

0:41:28.750,0:41:31.450
been achieved by the end of 2004 and

0:41:31.450,0:41:33.820
with components and parts coming from

0:41:33.820,0:41:36.520
four to six congressional states the fa

0:41:36.520,0:41:43.390
22 is truly a national effort costing a

0:41:43.390,0:41:46.300
massive 93 million dollars each the

0:41:46.300,0:41:48.369
Raptor is certainly the world's most

0:41:48.369,0:41:50.859
expensive fighter aircraft but for many

0:41:50.859,0:41:53.510
it is money well spent

0:41:53.510,0:41:55.520
yeah this is something special this was

0:41:55.520,0:41:58.070
not like an f15 on steroids or an f-16

0:41:58.070,0:42:00.410
on steroids this is the real thing with

0:42:00.410,0:42:02.840
a leap of technology that's orders of

0:42:02.840,0:42:04.160
magnitude better than what we have there

0:42:04.160,0:42:08.510
the interesting thing about the f-22

0:42:08.510,0:42:11.810
though is it is a fixed volume with an

0:42:11.810,0:42:14.810
infinitely increasing ability in terms

0:42:14.810,0:42:16.970
of its computer capabilities if you

0:42:16.970,0:42:18.740
think about the airplane has fixed holes

0:42:18.740,0:42:21.170
in the sides of the fuselage where

0:42:21.170,0:42:24.290
computers sit today in the future there

0:42:24.290,0:42:26.480
will be more computer capacity that

0:42:26.480,0:42:28.400
requires less power going in that same

0:42:28.400,0:42:31.250
physical hole so the fa20 to over the

0:42:31.250,0:42:33.020
course of life will become a more and

0:42:33.020,0:42:34.730
more flexible and warm more potent

0:42:34.730,0:42:39.640
machine as computer capacity increases

0:42:41.160,0:42:44.890
America's fa20 to Raptor was created out

0:42:44.890,0:42:47.230
of the Cold War fear that Russian made

0:42:47.230,0:42:51.570
fighters would sweep aside the f-15

0:42:52.859,0:42:55.780
but the world has changed since the

0:42:55.780,0:42:59.099
frigid days of the Cold War

0:43:00.920,0:43:03.800
the Soviet Union no longer exists and

0:43:03.800,0:43:06.260
the f-15 has more than earned the fear

0:43:06.260,0:43:08.690
and respected commands as the current

0:43:08.690,0:43:12.520
frontline fighter for the US Air Force

0:43:14.299,0:43:18.890
but the Raptor Lockheed's fa20 - looks

0:43:18.890,0:43:21.619
all set to carry US air force doctrine

0:43:21.619,0:43:28.249
well into the 21st century I'd be

0:43:28.249,0:43:30.589
terrified to to go into the arena with

0:43:30.589,0:43:31.489
something like that

0:43:31.489,0:43:34.849
I really would I've been on the

0:43:34.849,0:43:36.999
receiving end of it in testing and

0:43:36.999,0:43:39.349
mentally translated myself to what if

0:43:39.349,0:43:42.109
this was combat and it is a unnerving na

0:43:42.109,0:43:45.650
a disquieting feeling to fly in the same

0:43:45.650,0:43:47.269
airspace with more these airlines I

0:43:47.269,0:43:49.670
would say that it's not fair to our

0:43:49.670,0:43:51.920
enemies or even our own technology to

0:43:51.920,0:43:53.539
fight against the Raptor but the goal of

0:43:53.539,0:43:55.339
war isn't fair that we don't go into

0:43:55.339,0:43:58.039
combat because we want a fair fight

0:43:58.039,0:44:00.380
we want to win as fast as possible with

0:44:00.380,0:44:02.479
as little loss of life as possible and

0:44:02.479,0:44:04.160
the Raptor allows that to do that for

0:44:04.160,0:44:05.950
generations to come

0:44:05.950,0:44:08.920
in today's changing world there are few

0:44:08.920,0:44:11.760
certainties but the rule of the Raptor

0:44:11.760,0:44:14.920
America's air dominance fighter over the

0:44:14.920,0:44:18.930
skies is one of them

0:44:21.290,0:00:00.000
you