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Two major things happened in the UK during late April that raised military aficionados' eyebrows and caught aviation observers with their pants down.
The first one was when the US Air Force deploy twelve of the world’s most advanced super fighters across the Atlantic without any warning. It just happened. A mass of F-22A Raptors left Tyndall AFB in Florida and headed for England on a deployment that would last nearly three weeks. And no one outside the ‘need to know’ military network had a heads up/information about it. It proved that such things can still be done without losing the element of surprise, a point that is extra significant when you consider that the UK has an entire community built around aircraft spotting and flight tracking.

The second was as incredible as the first and saw a program first for this silver-clad 5th Generation fighter. Two of the super-cruising, thrust-vectoring, stealth-optimized, air dominance jets undertook a dedicated low-level mission through the UK’s famous Low-Fly system, the silver angels dropping down from the heavens, weaving and glinting their way through the green valleys of Wales.

funny enough, some ineffective buffons will soon come here and start saying they would jam Raptor and divert it to Poland or Germany. lolzzzz

Awesome piece of hardware. Do you know that the US under Obama could no longer afford the manufacturing and maintenance cost of the F22 Raptor that they opted to start manufacturing the cheaper F35 Lightning?

KevMitnick:
Awesome piece of hardware. Do you know that the US under Obama could no longer afford the manufacturing and maintenance cost of the F22 Raptor that they opted to start manufacturing the cheaper F35 Lightning?

America is planning to start reproducing F-22 Raptor
http://www.janes.com/article/59675/pentagon-budget-2017-legislation-would-seek-f-22-production-restart

if that is not enough http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a20478/congress-air-force-restarting-f-22/

mazeltov:
America is planning to start reproducing F-22 Raptor
http://www.janes.com/article/59675/pentagon-budget-2017-legislation-would-seek-f-22-production-restart

if that is not enough http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a20478/congress-air-force-restarting-f-22/

Wow... That's cool. I guess they need to reestablish their dominance in the air.