{"id":318396,"date":"2025-11-18T05:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/20-years-f-22-raptor-service\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T05:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:01:16","slug":"20-years-of-f-22-raptor-service-how-has-it-held-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=318396","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Of F-22 Raptor Service: How Has It Held Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 years after the aircraft entered service in December 2005, the F-22 Raptor remains the benchmark for <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> air dominance. The jet fused low observability, supercruise, and extreme agility before rivals fielded comparable designs. The aircraft layered sensor fusion and secure links to create a &#8220;first-look, first-shot, first-kill&#8221; envelope. The airframe itself is rather large, with a 62 ft 1 in (18.9 m) length and a wingspan measuring 44 ft 6 in (13.6 m). This anchors America&#8217;s high-end air defenses, even though production of the aircraft ended years ago after just 187 were produced, far fewer than were originally ordered by the Air Force. Official data lists a ceiling of above 50,000 ft (15,000 m) and exceptionally high-mach performance, with the supercruise exceeding Mach 1.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aircraft offers some incredible combat capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,7786,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-22-raptor","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318397,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318396\/revisions\/318397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}