-The plan, supported by top Air Force officials, was to create a stealthy, supersonic aircraft capable of deep-penetration strikes to fill a capability gap. -The design would have featured a larger ...

Key Points and Summary - Lockheed Martin’s FB-22 was never just a “bomberized Raptor” – it was a heavily re-imagined strike aircraft built on F-22 DNA. -The concept married the Raptor’s stealth, ...

What You Need to Know: The FB-22 concept, a bomber variant of the F-22 Raptor, proposed by Air Force Secretary James Roche in the early 2000s, aimed to adapt the Raptor into a stealthy, medium-range ...

China is working on a medium-range stealth bomber, a bridge between the J-20 stealth fighter and the larger strategic bomber the People’s Liberation Army Air Force has long sought. News of this ...

The American F-22 Stealth fighter can kick the snot out of just about any enemy fighter you could think of. Apart from possibly a few highly classified Chinese and Russian aggressors, there isn't a ...

With its reinvention as a bomber, has the F/A-22 finally turned into the next-generation war machine the US Air force really needs? For an aircraft beginning as foremost an air superiority fighter, ...

Company to trade speed and handling for increased range and payload capacity for USAF bomber requirement Lockheed Martin's newest designs for a bomber variant of the F/A-22 Raptor show a steady shift ...

While Lockheed Martin ponders three engine options for the FB-22 dedicated long-range strike derivative of the F-22, the emerging issue is whether the U.S. Air Force will propel the study any further.