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27 May 2017 6:35 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill
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| Tango01 | 27 May 2017 4:36 p.m. PST |
"The United States Air Force's fleet of stealthy Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fifth-generation air superiority fighters is proving to be invaluable over the skies of Iraq and Syria. While the powerful twin-engine stealth fighter does not have to worry about dealing with an ISIS air force, the aircraft does offer the USAF the ability to operate inside potentially dangerous areas protected by advanced Russian-built air defenses such the S-300V4 and S-400. "I'm flying that over here, and I got a little bit of experience," Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Harrigian, commander of U.S. Air Forces Central Command, told reporters at the Pentagon on May 24. "I've been able to leverage—and, quite frankly, I've been very fortunate to have it over here, because it's given me a capability that's been incredibly important to my ability to get back into the airspace, particularly in Syria, as we've needed to gain a better understanding of what the Syrian and Russian IADS [integrated air defense systems] were doing."…"
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| paulgenna | 27 May 2017 5:43 p.m. PST |
Too bad we quit building it. |
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