{"id":447202,"date":"2026-06-06T17:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-f-22-raptor-stealth-coating-nearly-impossible-replicate\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:00:18","slug":"why-the-f-22-raptors-stealth-coating-will-be-nearly-impossible-to-replicate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=447202","title":{"rendered":"Why The F-22 Raptor&#8217;s Stealth Coating Will Be Nearly Impossible To Replicate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor&#8217;s stealth coatings occupy a somewhat interesting area. On the one hand, by US standards, the coatings are significantly upgraded, but still at their core, dated 1990s designs. On the other hand, they remain one of the most effective in the world and could be <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2049446\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/f-22-really-worlds-best-fighter-jet-ever-produced\/\" >more effective than advanced fighter jets from countries like China and Russia<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-22&#8217;s stealth coating remains one of the most effective in the world, even if it is now aging by US standards.<\/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":[396,7786,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-22-raptor","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447202","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=447202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447203,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447202\/revisions\/447203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=447202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=447202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=447202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}