{"id":389268,"date":"2026-03-19T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/most-significant-system-differences-f-22-raptor-f-35-lightning-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:00:20","slug":"the-6-most-significant-system-differences-between-the-f-22-raptor-f-35-lightning-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=389268","title":{"rendered":"The 6 Most Significant System Differences Between The F-22 Raptor &amp; F-35 Lightning II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed Martin <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"87592\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>F-22 Raptor<\/span><\/span> and F-35 Lightning II are the USAF&#8217;s two fifth-generation fighter jets that are designed to perform complementary but different roles. <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2049446\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-22-really-worlds-best-fighter-jet-ever-produced\/\" >Whereas the F-22 is a dedicated air dominance fighter<\/a><\/span>, the F-35 is optimized for penetrating enemy air defenses and dismantling them, clearing the way for other aircraft, including F-35s and fourth-generation fighter jets, to exploit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-22 &amp; F-35s system differences reflect the different time periods they were developed as well as different mission sets.<\/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":[396,7786,748,628,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-22-raptor","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389268","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=389268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389269,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389268\/revisions\/389269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}