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September 8, 2024 Netherlands Announces More F-35 Fighters, NH90 Helicopters in New $2.7B Defense Plan F-35
September 7, 2024 U.S, Europe Are Helping Ukraine Develop Substitute for S-300 Air Defense System and R-27 Missile Troubled Areas
September 7, 2024 RTX Fined $200M for Leak of F-22, F-35, B-2, E-3 And Other Aircraft’s Data to Russia, Iran, China Military Aviation
September 7, 2024 Highest-time A-10 Pilot Retires After 37 Years Of Service And 7,500 Hours In The Warthog Military Aviation
September 6, 2024 First Ever Sling Load Training with the HH-60W Jolly Green II at Moody Air Force Base Helicopters

Better late than never: Alaskan Raptors are the first F-22s to be armed with the AIM-9X

March 7, 2016 Dario Leone

90th Fighter Squadron is the first F-22 Raptor combat unit equipped with the AIM-9X dogfight missile. On Mar. 1, 2016 the 90th Fighter Squadron (FS) belonging to the 3rd Wing stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska […]

These are probably the best F-22 Raptor air-to-air images we have ever seen!

September 15, 2015 David Cenciotti

Arctic Raptors provide Alaska Air Dominance. The images in this post show F-22 Raptor stealth fighters belonging to the 90th FS “Pair-O-Dice,” the first F-22 squadron in Alaska, receiving its advanced aircraft in 2007. Taken […]