Was the F 22 shot down? The U.S. military itself is reluctant to use it, and it has no chance to sho

Mondo Military Updated on 2024-01-29

Has the F-22 ever been shot down? So far, there have been no accidents, only 5 crashes, resulting in the death of 2 pilots, which is very small for an "old" fighter that has been in service for almost 20 years and has been in service for more than 21 years.

The F-22 prototype made its first successful flight in 1997, the first production version was delivered for tactical test flights in 2002, the first was officially equipped in January 2005, and by December 2005, the U.S. Air Force announced that the first F-22 squadron was fully operational. The F-22 is a fighter designed according to the concept of air superiority, and the U.S. Air Force once wanted to change the number to F A-22, which means to enhance the ground attack capability, but later used the number of the F-22, and its ground attack capability was added to the production model after 2005.

In January 2007, the F-22 flew its first U.S. homeland defense mission, intercepting a Russian Tu-95MS, and since then has taken off from Alaska several times to intercept Russian bombers on strategic cruise missions. In February 2007, the F-22 was deployed to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, marking the first time the F-22 was deployed overseas in the United States. In 2009, the F-22 was first deployed to the Middle East.

The development of the F-22 began during the Cold War, and by the end of the Cold War in the later stages of the development, the original intended combat objects and combat methods have changed greatly, resulting in many controversies over the use of the F-22 in the United States. In addition, the R&D cost continued to rise during the period, and the final production number was only 187 aircraft, and the total number of prototypes plus 8 prototypes was only 195 aircraft, which was far lower than the initial plan of 750 aircraft, which further pushed up the cost of a single machine, and by the first three years of production in 2009, the production cost of a single machine had reached 1$300 million, making it the most expensive mass-produced fighter in history.

Due to the high cost of production, the United States from the first to the Congress to the Secretary of Defense to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, up and down to stop the production of F-22, the resources for the development of F-35 and the production of F A-18 and other aircraft, in 2009 the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States Congress passed a resolution to stop the production of F-22, Secretary of Defense Gates until 2011 also stressed that the suspension of F-22 has taken into account the development of Chinese fighters, at least until 2025 The United States aircraft still has a considerable advantage. Then everyone knows that in November 2011, the J-20 made its first flight, and about a month later, the last F-22 was pushed out of the workshop, and after another half a year, the F-22 production line was shut down.

It is also because of the high cost of such a small quantity, the United States also cherishes the F-22 from top to bottom, and Congress first passed legislation to ban the export of F-22, and the ban has not been lifted, and even Israel does not sell it; The U.S. Air Force did not allow the F-22 to enter the war for the first time until September 2014: two 1000-pound GPS guided bombs were dropped on the "Islamic State" targets in Syria, and from September to July of the following year, the F-22 flew 204 sorties over Syria and dropped 270 bombs on 60 targets, and later bombed the Taliban in Afghanistan. There is basically no risk at all, let alone an air confrontation.

On February 4, 2023, an F-22 of the First Fighter Wing of the U.S. Air Force shot down a 20,000-meter-high floating weather balloon that was out of control in China, and finally achieved a breakthrough of zero "air combat results".

In the article of the last ranking of fighter jets, a reader left a message at the bottom, saying that it is good to pull these fifth-generation aircraft out and fight them - in fact, Merlin also hopes to see them fight, after all, it is the mule that is pulled out by the horse to see more clearly, especially when it is time to fight to the end - but looking back, according to the current situation, from the perspective of the well-being of the people of the world - it is better not to fight.

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