The F-22 Raptor remains the best air superiority fighter jet in the world. It needs the necessary upgrades to remain the best until the Air Force is ready to usher in a new generation of fighter jets ...

Pratt & Whitney has secured a $1.5B contract to sustain F119 engines for the USAF F-22 Raptor fleet, aiming to enhance ...

NGAD was meant to be the eventual replacement for the Air Force’s Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, but its future has been far from clear in recent months. However, the NGAD program may not be dead ...

NGAD represents just one component of a broader ... jet program (the would-be successor to the fifth-generation F-22 Raptor); among the chief reasons for the bleak outlook is the program’s ...

While the Air Force’s manned Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter has an uncertain ... said last July. “The Raptor team recently conducted six flight test efforts to demo and assess ...

The Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program emerged in 2014. The program was for a "family of systems" to replace the Raptor with a sixth-generation fighter aircraft at its center. They initially ...

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, introduced in 2005 ... Originally planned to be replaced by the now-controverted Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program in the 2030s, the F-22 is undergoing ...

The USAF has announced plans to eventually phase out the Raptor in favor of the Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. The NGAD program aims to develop a sixth-generation fighter that will ...

Finally, considering the challenges faced by the NGAD program, which aims to develop a sixth-generation fighter, it is likely that the F-22 Raptor will continue to serve the U.S. Air Force for many ...