An Air Force F-22 Raptor just fired off a record number of air-to-air missiles
Nicholas Slayton - Yesterday 11:24 AM
The U.S. Air Force found out that the F-22 Raptor can fire far more air-to-air missiles than ever before. Teams from the 94th Fighter Squadron and 94th Fighter Generation Squadrons were able to load and fire a record breaking 28 missiles during a weapons test in September, far more than the standard arms loadout.
That’s a lot of explosives. In fact, it’s nearly a third more than the previous record of 22 air-to-air missiles fired from a F-22, set in 2014 by a team from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. This Raptor is loaded for bear and other planes.
"It basically tells big Air Force that our unit is prepared to deploy and if they did deploy us, how well we would perform compared to other squadrons," Staff Sgt. Edgar Baez-Lopez, 94th FGS aircraft armament systems craftsman with the 94th Fighter Generation Squadron said after the successful weapons system evaluation program at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.
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